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Marine Bio Unit 1 Vocabulary

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the outermost layer of the Earth?

a)

Crust

b)

Mantle

c)

Asthenosphere

d)

Outer core

2.

What is made up of the crust and the top part of the mantle?

a)

Asthenosphere

b)

Lithosphere

c)

Hydrosphere

d)

Biosphere

3.

What is the layer of the upper mantle that lies below the lithosphere?

a)

Inner core

b)

Outer core

c)

Subduction zone

d)

Asthenosphere

4.

What is the semi-liquid region found between the crust and the core of the Earth?

a)

Mantle

b)

Subduction zone

c)

Rift

d)

Trench

5.

What is the innermost layer of the Earth?

a)

Outer core

b)

Inner core

c)

Lithosphere

d)

Asthenosphere

6.

What is it called when there is a crack in the Earth's crust where two plates are moving past each other

a)

Fault

b)

Rift

c)

Ridge

d)

Trench

7.

What do we call the movement of continental masses on the surface of the Earth?

a)

Plate tectonics

b)

Continental drift

c)

Subduction

d)

Seafloor spreading

8.

What do we call the process by which large plates move around on the surface of the Earth?

a)

Subduction

b)

Plate tectonics

c)

Seafloor spreading

d)

Osmosis

9.

What do we call the formation of new seafloor as it moves away from the spreading centers of mid-ocean ridges?

a)

Plate tectonics

b)

Subduction

c)

Seafloor spreading

d)

Osmosis

10.

What is the movement resulting from heat being transferred in a fluid, such as the heat-driven motion in the Earth's mantle?

a)

Convection

b)

Conductivity

c)

Osmosis

d)

Subduction

11.

What is the downward movement of a plate into the mantle that occurs in trenches?

a)

Seafloor spreading

b)

Subduction

c)

Convection

d)

Continental drift