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This Test Is About The Layers Of The Earth, Plate Boundaries And Types Of Rocks. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

Which of the following represents the correct order of the layers of the Earth from least dense to most dense?
a) Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle, Crust
b) Outer Core, Inner Core, Crust, Mantle
c) Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core
d) Crust, Outer Core, Inner Core, Mantle

Earthquakes and volcanoes primarily form where?
a) Near the edges of continents
b) Near the edges of tectonic plates
c) Center of continents
d) Randomly

The Earth's inner core is what state of matter due to extreme pressure?
a) Solid
b) Liquid
c) Plasma
d) Gas

Which type of rock is the weakest type?
a) Extrusive Igneous
b) Intrusive Igneous
c) Sedimentary
d) Metamorphic

When a rock cools quickly, it has no crystals. What kind of rock is it?
a) Extrusive Igneous
b) Intrusive Igneous
c) Sedimentary
d) Metamorphic

Which word means light colored rocks?
a) Coarse-grained
b) Fine-grained
c) Felsic
d) Mafic

Which word means dark colored rocks?
a) Felsic
b) Mafic
c) Coarse-grained
d) Fine-grained

Marble is created when limestone undergoes heat and pressure, what kind of rock is marble?
a) Intrusive Igneous
b) Sedimentary
c) Extrusive Igneous
d) Metamorphic

Which type of rock is created by tiny sediments being cemented together?
a) Intrusive Igneous
b) Sedimentary
c) Extrusive Igneous
d) Metamorphic

Plate Tectonics says that the plates move ________ per year.
a) Several feet
b) Several miles
c) Several centimeters
d) Several kilometers

What type of boundary is responsible for creating ocean basins?
a) Convergent
b) Divergent
c) Transform
d)

When plates separate they create rifts, what type of boundary is created?
a) Convergent
b) Divergent
c) Transform
d)

What type of boundary has plates colliding, converging or piling up on each other?
a) Convergent
b) Divergent
c) Transform
d)

Which type of of boundary creates a fault line?
a) Convergent
b) Divergent
c) Transform
d)

Which layer of the Earth is least dense?
a) Crust
b) Mantle
c) Outer Core
d) Inner Core

Which layer of the Earth produces convection currents that moves the plates?
a) Crust
b) Mantle
c) Outer Core
d) Inner Core

Which layer of the Earth is most dense?
a) Crust
b) Mantle
c) Outer Core
d) Inner Core

Coarse-grained rocks tend to have what feature?
a) No crystals
b) Crystals
c) Aligned bands of minerals
d) Dark colors

Some rocks have mineral bands or what look like stripes, this is called ________
a) Coarse-grained
b) Fine-grained
c) Foliated
d) Non-foliated

What causes different landforms to be created?
a) Luck
b) Plate Tectonics
c) The rotation of the Earth
d) Gravity

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