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Earth's Structure And Plate Tectonics.
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The earth is primarily composed of.....
a) crust
b) magma
c) rock
d) graham cracker
About how much of the earth is covered by water?
a) 75%
b) 25%
c) 80%
d) 70%
What is the thinnest layer of the earth?
a) inner core
b) mantle
c) crust
d) outer core
Which layer contains most of the earth's mass?
a) crust
b) mantle
c) outer core
d) inner core
What is it called when heat rises and cool sinks?
a) mantle current
b) core current
c) ocean current
d) convection current
The only liquid layer is the......
a) crust
b) outer core
c) inner core
d) mantle
What is created by the dynamo effect in the inner core?
a) magnetic field
b) convection current
c) tired teachers
d) snow
What consists of all the crust as well as the upper, ridged part of the mantle?
a) lithosphere
b) asthenosphere
c) mesosphere
d) sphere
What is the theory of continental drift?
a) the hypothesis that the continents were once further apart
b) the hypothesis that the continents once formed a single land mass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations.
c) the hypothesis that the continents once formed a single land mass and are drifting back into that land mass
d)
The process of new oceanic crust forming is.....
a) sea-floor spreading
b) crust spreading
c) rift valley making
d) subduction
subduction...
a) destroys old crust
b) makes new crust
c) bakes cakes
d) likes long walks on the beach
what boundary is formed by collisions of plates?
a) transform
b) divergent
c) convergent
d)
what boundary is caused by plates moving away?
a) divergent
b) transform
c) convergent
d)
what boundary is created by two plates sliding past each other?
a) transform
b) divergent
c) convergent
d)
When a transform boundary happens, what is the effect?
a) sea-floor spreading
b) volcanoes
c) rift valleys
d) earthquakes
A force that acts on a rock to change its shape or volume is called....
a) folding
b) stress
c) tension
d) anger
stress that pushes rock in opposite directions until it breaks....
a) shearing
b) tension
c) compression
d) syncline
fold in a rock that bends upwards is....
a) anticline
b) syncline
c)
d)
stress that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks is called....
a) shearing
b) tension
c) compression
d) hanging wall
stress that pulls rock until it becomes thinner in the middle or breaks is called...
a) folding
b) shearing
c) compression
d) tension
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