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Earth's Layers Vocabulary
Test Description: Practice Vocabulary
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) The lower layer of the mantle that boarders Earth's molten core. Rocks are hot enough to flow in convection currents.
A
Asthenosphere
B
Lithosphere
C
Mesosphere
D
inner core
2) This layer of the crust is mostly sediment and is only 7-10 km thick.
A
Continental Crust
B
Lithosphere
C
Oceanic Crust
D
Mesosphere
3) A thin outer layer of rock above a planet's mantle, including all dry land.
A
Mantle
B
Continental Crust
C
Outer core
D
Inner core
4) The flat or gradually sloping land that extends under-water from the edge of a continent to a continental slope.
A
Continental Land
B
Oceanic Floor
C
Continental Shelf
D
Continental Slope
5) The layer of Earth made up of the crust and the rigid rock of the upper mantle.
A
asthenosphere
B
lithosphere
C
inner core
D
outer core
6) This is the land that drops down steeply at the edge of a continental shelf.
A
Continental shelf
B
Continental slope
C
Continental land
D
Oceanic floor
7) The layer of rock between Earth's outer core and crust, in which most rock is hot enough to flow in convection currents.
A
mantle
B
asthenosphere
C
inner core
D
outer core
8) The layer of Earth's upper mantle directly under the lithosphere in which rock is soft and weak because it is close to melting.
A
crust
B
asthenosphere
C
tectonic plates
D
lithosphere
9) A layer of molten metal, mainly nickel (Ni) and iron (Fe), that surrounds Earth's inner core.
A
Moho
B
mantle
C
outer core
D
inner core
10) A solid sphere of metal, mainly nickel (Ni) iron (Fe), at Earth's center.
A
outer core
B
inner core
C
mantle
D
lithosphere
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