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1
What tool does a scientist use to detect magnetic fields?
a magnetometer
a thermometer
a fieldometer
a magnetogram
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Name The Earth Layers In Order From OuterMost To InnerMost
Mantle, Outer Core, Crust, Inner Core
Crust, Inner Core, Mantle, Outer Core
Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core
Outer Core, Mantle, Inner Core, Crust
3
What Was The "Super Continent" Called
Pangea
Panagea
Boundaries
4
What do you call the process of hot rock rising, cooling, and then sinking?
Inner Core
Outer Core
Convection
Convaction
5
What Is The Theory That States The Oceans Floors Are Forming And Spreading Out From The Ridges
Sea Floor
Sea Spreading
Sea
SeaFloor Spreading
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The mid-ocean ridge occurs along a
Transform boundary where crust is subducted
Divergent boundary where subduction takes place
Convergent boundary where new crust is formed
Divergent boundary where sea-floor spreading takes place
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Who Introduce The Theory Of Crustal Movement?
Alfred Wegener
Alfred Wager
Alfredo Wagner
Alfred Weeger
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Continental crust is ______________________ than oceanic crust
Hotter
Colder
Thicker
Thinner
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Name The Boundary Between The Crust&Mantle
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Mohorovicic Discontinuity (MOHO)
10
What Is The Only Liquid Layer
Outer Core
Inner Core
Crust
Mantle
11
What happens to rock around a subducting slab?
It goes under the other plate
It combines with the other rock.
It goes over the other plate.
It disappears from Earth.
12
What do scientists believe is the force behind the plate tectonics theory?
the movement of the planets
convection currents
the Sun's gravity
gravity slab pull
13
Tectonic plates interact at places called plate
centers
reversals
boundaries
regions
14
How do scientists explain the formation of underwater mountain ranges?
convection currents
continental drift
seafloor spreading
strike-slip faults
15
What causes the tectonic plates to move?
Convection in the mantle
Ocean currents
Volcanoes
16
What Was The First Theory Of Crustal Movement?
The Continental Drift Theory
Tectonic Plates
SeaFloor Spreading
17
When an oceanic plate slides under a continental plate, what is usually formed?
continental drift
mountain range
subduction zone
seafloor spreading
18
What does plate tectonics cause?
causes volcanoes
all of the above
forms ocean basins
forms mountains
19
When one tectonic plates dives under another, it is called BLANK.
Subduction
Divergent
SeaFloor Spreading
20
What is number eight?
Custle
Cust
Mantle
Crust
21
Plates move at a rate of about 1-16 cm per__________
Year
Hour
Month
Century
22
When oceanic crust melts it can result in the formation of a __________.
Earthquakes
Volcano
Storm
23
The Crust And OuterMost Part Of The Mantle Is Called......
Lithasphere
Lithosphere
Crust
Asthenosphere
24
A map of global earthquakes and volcanoes tells you
Where the plate boundaries are
Where the earth is the hottest
Where the edges of the continents are
25
What Is NOT Pangaea
the largest fault found on Earth
the large landmass that all continents are currently forming
Earth's inner core
the large landmass in which all continents were connected
26
What is the lower layer of the crust called?
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
27
Hot spots are
Constantly disappearing and reappearing
What creates earthquakes
Stationary, they stay in the same place
Always moving around
28
an underwater mountain range made at divergent plate boundaries Called?
mid-ocean ridge
Oceanic
29
What is number five?
Inner Core
Outer Core
30
boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other Called?
Divergent Boundary
Convergent Boundary
Transform boundary
31
Oceanic crust is ____________________ than continental crust
More dense
More hot
Less hot
Less dense
32
Where are most divergent boundaries found?
at subduction zones
on the seafloor
along coastlines
on the continents
33
What is Pangaea?
Earth's inner core
the largest fault found on Earth
the large landmass that all continents are currently forming
the large landmass in which all continents were connected
34
A __________ boundary occurs when two tectonic plates collide into each other
Convergents
Transform
Divergents
35
What is number three?
Manle
Outer Core
Mantel
Mantle
36
Which Is More Dense
Continental Crust
Oceanic Crust
37
When the earth's tectonic plates move, we call this a BLANK.
Volcanoe
Earthquake
38
Who created the theory of seafloor spreading?
Albert Einstein
Alfred Wegener
Harry Hess
Harry Hiss
39
The vent on the earth's surface through which magma and gases are expelled is a called a BLANK.
Volcanoe
Earthquake
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What is number one?
Mantle
Crust
Outer Core
Inner Core
