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Inside the Earth chapter 4
Inside the Earth chapter 4
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Alfred Wegener's proposed a hypothesis that stated that the continents had moved is called:
continental drift
myopia
plumbum
<p>floating islands</p>
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The Earth's surface is like a cracked egg shell. Each piece of cracked outer layer is called a
slab of rock
land
tectonic plates
continents
3
Mountains formed when two plates collide are
volcanic mountains
fault block mountains
folded mountains
strombolian mountains
4
Compression is a force that
causes headaches
causes extreme weather
causes global warming
squeezes rock layers together
5
The sinking of regions of the crust is called
valleys
canyons
sinkholes
subsidence
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What are the two basic types of crust?
rock and lava
purina and iams
sidereal and julean
oceanic and continental
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Scientists use these to monitor plate movement:
telescopes
television broadcasts
GPS
microscopes
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The Atlantic Ocean is getting wider because of
melting glaciers
seafloor spreading
continents sinking
global warming
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Geologists use these to map the interior of the Earth:
ocean tide levels
seismic waves
fossils
weather patterns
10
A break in the crust or lithosphere is a
block of rock
fault
earthquake
tsunami
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A place where old crust is destroyed is called
an earthquake
a volcano
a subduction zone
a landslide
12
Plates moving together form a
convergent boundary
divergent boundary
volcano
transform boundary
13
What is the outermost layer of the Earth based on physical structure?
nucleus
lithosphere
ionosphere
mesosphere
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What is the outermost layer of the Earth based on composition?
lithosphere
mantle
Crust
Core
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The amount of force on a given area of crust is called:
global warming
radioactive decay
magnetic reversal
stress
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The midocean ridge goes almost all the way around the Earth.
global warming
false
idk
true
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When continental crust collides with continental crust, this forms:
new oceans
a volcano
climate change
mountains
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Magnetic reversal is evidence for
seafloor spreading
volcanic eruptions
getting lost in the woods
global warming
19
At one time in the past all land masses were joined together and named
Pangaea
Mediterraneo
Africa
Gondwanaland