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A substance composed of two or more elements is called ..
a) mix
b) amalgam
c) compound
d) complex

Which element is not a major part of the Earth's crust?
a) Silicon
b) Iron
c) Oxygen
d) Aluminum

Which is NOT a layer of the Earth?
a) Shell
b) Crust
c) Core
d) Mantle

The outermost, ridged layer of the Earth is called...
a) asthenosphere
b) lithoshpere
c) mesosphere
d) inner core

The liquid layer of the core is called...
a) lithoshphere
b) inner core
c) outer core
d) mantle

The layer of slowly flowing rock in the mantle is called..
a) mesosphere
b) lava
c) asthenoshpere
d) mantle

Large pieces of the lithosphere that move around on the asthenosphere are called..
a) mantle pieces
b) tectonic plates
c) crust pieces
d) rift plates

What are the two types of crust?
a) mantle and core
b) oceanic and mantle
c) oceanic and continental
d) continental and mantle

What hypothesis by Alfred Wegener explains why continents seem to fit together?
a) continental spreading
b) Wegener's puzzle
c) plate tectonics
d) continental drift

How many land masses did all the continents once form?
a) six
b) seven major plates
c) one
d) ten

The theory that Earth is divided into plates that move around is called..
a) Earthly division
b) Latitudinal plates
c) Plate tectonics
d) Continental Shift

The place where tectonic plates touch is know as..
a) continental plate
b) boundary plate
c) tectonic ridge
d) magma zone

Which is NOT a type of tectonic boundary?
a) convergent boundary
b) transform boundary
c) fault-block boundary
d) divergent boundary

The three ways tectonic plates can move relative to each other are..
a) collide, separate, and slide
b) collide, fuse, and slide
c) drift, separate, and slide
d) collide, fuse, and dtrift

What boundary forms when plates collide?
a) transform boundary
b) convergent boundary
c) divergent boundary
d) trans fault boundary

What boundary forms when plates separate?
a) trans fault boundary
b) transform boundary
c) convergent boundary
d) divergent boundary

What boundary forms when plates slide past each other?
a) divergent boundary
b) transform boundary
c) convergent boundary
d) trans fault boundary

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