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WorksheetsEarth structure and dynamics
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Between the methods of study of the geosphere, it is an indirect study method:
Volcanoes
The study of seismic waves
Well drilling
Meteor studies
Thanks to the direct methods of studying the geosphere, we have reached depths of, aproximately:
3 Km
7 Km
12 Km
100 Km
The property that determines that the densest areas of the earth's crust tend to sink and the less dense to rise is called:
Sphericity
Isostasy
The magnetic field
The gravitational field
The Richter scale to analyze earthquakes measures:
Intensity
Magnitude
Duration
Risk
At what type of plate boundary is new crust created?:
At subduction zones
At oceanic ridges
At transform boundaries
All of the previous are right
The point on the earth's surface where seismic waves first arrive is called:
Focus
Hypocenter
Epicenter
Tectonic foult
The fastest body seismic waves are:
P waves
S waves
Love waves
Rayleigh waves
It is true with respect to S waves that:
They are the fastest
Its speed increases in gases
The particles vibrate in the same direction as the wave
They are not transmitted through fluid materials
The earth's magnetic field is originated by the convection currents of the material of:
The crust
The mantle
The outer core
The inner core
The geochemical model of the internal structure of the Earth is based on:
The fluidity of the layers
The chemical composition of the layers
The temperature of the layers
None of the above
The main component of mantle rocks is:
Iron
Nickel
Aluminum silicates
Iron and magnesium silicates
Convection currents in the geosphere are originated because hot material tends to:
Go up
Go down
Stay at the same point
None of the previous is correct
Theories that affirm that the continents move are the theories:
Fixists
Mobilizers
Orogenic
All of the previous
The general average value of the geothermal gradient in the earth's crust is:
3 ºC every 100 meters.
10 ºC every 100 meters
50 ºC every 100 meters
100 ºC every 100 meters
The Earth's core is made up of:
More nickel than iron
More iron than nickel
The same amount of nickel as iron
It is not very clear yet, but what is known is that it does not contain iron or nickel
The evidences of continental drift based on the existence of fossils of identical organisms in places on the planet that are today thousands of kilometers away are:
Paleoclimatic evidences
Geographic evidences
Paleontological evidences
Geological and tectonics evidences
The evidences of continental drift that are based on the coincidence between the shape of the coasts of some continents, especially between South America and Africa, are:
Paleoclimatic evidences
Geographic evidences
Paleontological evidences
Geological and tectonics evidences
Mid-ocean ridges are a boundaries of type:
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
None of the previous
The continental drift hypothesis was proposed by:
Harry Hess
Tuzo Wilson
Alfred Wegener
Beno Gutenberg
The discontinuity, in the internal structure of the Earth, between the crust and the upper mantle is called:
Mohorovicic discontinuity
Lehman discontinuity
Gutenberg discontinuity
Repetti discontinuity
