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Plate tectonics and Earths structure

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Describe the crust

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2.

Describe the mantle

4 lines
3.

Describe the Inner Core

4 lines
4.

Describe the outer core

4 lines
5.

Describe the lithosphere

4 lines
6.

Describe the asthenosphere

4 lines
7.

What does the theory of plate tectonics say?

a)

Earths continents were once together in a large mass

b)

The earth used to be air

c)

Cori has crazy hair

d)

There was a groilla man in Southeast Asia

8.

What are evidence to support plate tectonics?

a)

the same fossils and plants on two different lands.

b)

They seem to fit together as a puzzle piece

c)

Plates move

d)

Earthquakes

9.

What is convection?

a)

Making new land

b)

Like a lava lamp, colder air goes up, hotter air goes down.

c)

When a volcano erupts

10.

What are convection currents role in plate tectonics?

a)

The plates slowly move around the planet and hold the ocean and land

b)

Ummm volcanoes make new land?

c)

:)

d)

Science

11.

Convergent boundaries

a)

When 2 plates push towards eachother

b)

when 2 plates push away from eachother

c)

When 2 plates slide past eachother

d)

when Mrs. Meyer says "It's not dumb, it just makes you feel dumb."

12.

Divergent Boundaries

a)

When 2 plates push towards eachother

b)

When 2 plates push away from each other

c)

When 2 plates slide past eachother

d)

When you run into a wall

13.

Transfrom boundaries

a)

When 2 plates push towards eachother

b)

When 2 plates push away from eachother

c)

When 2 plates slide past eachother

14.

Where do most earthquakes appear?

a)

California

b)

Plate boundaries

c)

West Union Iowa

d)

gangsters homes

15.

Why do earthquakes occur?

4 lines
16.

How can volcanoes be produced?

4 lines
17.

What are hotspots?

a)

Where we can get to the internet

b)

A spot with the hottest girls/boys

c)

the sun

d)

Spots that are hot

e)

Hot matriel coming up from deep within Earth

18.

Volcanoes form from

(a)