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Surface And Interior Of The Earth, Plate Boundaries, And Plate Tectonics
Test Description: These are the Vocabulary Words relating to Earth Science
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What is the process by which sediment and other materials are moved from one place to another.
A
Deposition
B
Weathering
C
Delta
D
Erosion
2) What is the process by which eroded materials are dropped?
A
Deposition
B
Delta
C
Erosion
D
Weathering
3) What is the breaking down of rock into smaller pieces?
A
Deposition
B
Delta
C
Wethering
D
Erosion
4) What is large mass of moving ice that forms by compacting of snow by natural forces?
A
Delta
B
Dunes
C
Mudslide
D
Glacier
5) What shows the shape of Earth's surface with lines that represent different elevations?
A
Elevation Map
B
Contour Map
C
Topographic Map
D
Gradient Map
6) What is Earth's thin, outer shell
A
Crust
B
Mantle
C
Outer Core
D
Inner Core
7) What is the thick layer below the crust?
A
Inner Core
B
Crust
C
Outer Core
D
Mantle
8) Which layer of the Earth is the center of Earth made up of very dense elements?
A
Crust
B
Lower Mantle
C
Upper Mantle
D
Core
9) What is the solid thin layer of mantle material where the rock is putty like. This is the layer that the tectonic plates float on?
A
Inner Core
B
Lower Mantle
C
Upper Mantle
D
Outer Core
10) What is the part of the Earth's core that is liquid due to high temperatures?
A
Crust
B
Mantle
C
Inner Core
D
Outer Core
11) What is part of the Earth's core that is solid due to extreme pressure?
A
Mantle
B
Outer Core
C
Crust
D
Inner Core
12) What are waves of energy that are released by earthquakes?
A
Air Waves
B
Sound Waves
C
Seismic Waves
D
Heat Waves
13) What is the type of boundary when tectonic plates move toward each other and collide
A
Divergent Boundary
B
Trench Boundary
C
Convergent Boundary
D
Transform Boundary
14) What is the type of boundary when two tectonic plates move away from one another, or diverge?
A
Convergent Boundary
B
Transform Boundary
C
Divergent Boundary
D
Trench Boundary
15) What are plate boundaries when two tectonic plates move past one another in opposite directions?
A
Convergent Boundary
B
Divergent Boundary
C
Trench Boundary
D
Transform Boundary
16) What is process by which one tectonic plate is pulled beneath another plate?
A
Subduction
B
Ridge Push
C
Slab Pull
D
Sea Floor Spreading
17) What are underwater mountain belts formed by sea floor spreading?
A
Rift Vally
B
Ocean Trenches
C
Side Ridges
D
Mid Ocean Ridges
18) What cause tectonic plate motion by movement that results from differences in the density of magma in the earth's mantle?
A
Ridge Push
B
Convection Currents
C
Slab Pull
D
Subduction
19) What are large moving pieces of Earth's crust?
A
Landmass
B
Continental Plates
C
Tectonic Plates
D
Lithospheric Plates
20) What type of stress squeezes or shortens material?
A
Twisting
B
Tension
C
Compression
D
Shear
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