Earth: layers, plates, plate tectonics

  1. What are the four earth layers?
    • crust
    • mantle
    • outer core
    • inner core
  2. Which of the following is true about the earth layer crust?




    D) all of the answers are true
  3. Which of the following is true about the earth layer - mantle?




    C) It is the largest layer of the Earth
  4. Which of the following is true about the earth layer - outer core?




    B) All of the answers are true
  5. Which of the following is true about the earth layer - inner core?




    A) The inner core is solid
  6. The lithosphere is made up of the crust and mantle.  True or False
    True
  7. The asthenosphere is made up of the upper mantle which is plastic, semi-molten state that lithosphere floats atop. True or False
    True
  8. The mesosphere is made of the lower mantle between the asthenosphere and the outer core.  True or False
    True
  9. Which of the follow is not one of the seven main plates?







    F) Atlantic. Anarctic is the one of the seven
  10. What is Plate Tetonics?
    theory that ascribes continental drift, volcanic and seismic activity, and the formation of mountain belts to moving plates of the Earth's crust supported on less rigid mantle rocks
  11. What is subduction?
    When one lithospheric plate descends beneath another
  12. Convergent




    B) plates move toward each other
  13. Divergent




    B) plates move away from each other
  14. Transform are where




    A) plates slide past each other
  15. Subduction




    D) plate moves under another plate
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Earth: layers, plates, plate tectonics
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Earth: layers, plates, plate tectonics
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