Unit 3: The Restless Earth

Question 1

Coastlines, Rock Composition & Structure, Similar Fossils, Climate clues - are all evidence of?

Accepted Answer

Continental Drift

Question 2

What type of boundary is this picture?

Accepted Answer

Divergent

Question 3

Which mechanism that moves tectonic plates occurs from varying densities within Earth?

Accepted Answer

Mantle Convection

Question 4

What can seismic waves tell us?

Accepted Answer

About layers of Earth's Interior

Question 5

What layer do tectonic plates ride ON TOP of?

Accepted Answer

Asthenosphere

Question 6

What is the process of how Earth's layers formed?

Accepted Answer

Differentiation

Question 7

What type of plate is thinner and MORE dense?

Accepted Answer

Oceanic

Question 8

What type of plate is thick and LESS dense?

Accepted Answer

Continental

Question 9

What is direct evidence we use to study material that may have formed Earth's layer?

Accepted Answer

Meteorites

Question 10

What is indirect evidence we use to study Earth's interior?

Accepted Answer

Seismic Waves

Question 11

Bending, tilting, and breaking of Earth's Crust in Response to stress is

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Deformation

Question 12

A landform, like a volcanic island, that forms far away from a plate boundary is called what?

Accepted Answer

Hot Spot

Question 13

What type of stress "Twists of Distorts Material"?

Accepted Answer

Shear

Question 14

Rift Valleys, Mid-Ocean Ridges, and Fault-Block Mountains can all form from this boundary.

Accepted Answer

Divergent

Question 15

What type of boundary is this picture?

Accepted Answer

Transform

Question 16

The location in Earth at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs along a fault.

Accepted Answer

Focus

Question 17

Which mechanism that moves tectonic plates occurs from gravity at ocean ridges?

Accepted Answer

Ridge Push

Question 18

What type of boundary is this picture?

Accepted Answer

Convergnet

Question 19

The theory that Earth is made of giant plates, moving across Earth surface is what?

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Plate Tectonics

Question 20

Ocean Trenches, Island Volcanoes, and Folded Mountains can all form from this boundary.

Accepted Answer

Convergent

Question 21

Most scientists think the solar system formed from _____________?

Accepted Answer

Collapsed Solar Nebula

Question 22

Sea-floor Spreading, subduction, magnetic reversals, earthquakes & volcanoes - are evidence of?

Accepted Answer

Plate Tectonics

Question 23

A movement or trembling of the ground caused by a sudden release of energy within rocks is a

Accepted Answer

Earthquake

Question 24

Continental Drift can be best described as a _____________.

Accepted Answer

Hypothesis

Question 25

What type of stress "Squeezes or Shortens Material"?

Accepted Answer

Compression

Question 26

Which mechanism that moves tectonic plates occurs at subduction zones of converging plates?

Accepted Answer

Slab Pull

Question 27

What is direct evidence we use to study Earth's interior?

Accepted Answer

Rocks from Volcanic Eruptions

Question 28

How do we describe Earth's layers of: Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Mesosphere, Outer/Inner Core

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Physical

Question 29

How do we describe Earth's layers of: Crust, Mantle, Core

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Compositional

Question 30

What type of stress "Lengthens or Pulls Apart Material"?

Accepted Answer

Tension

Unit 3: The Restless Earth

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Unit 3: The Restless Earth

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