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Youngest crust is near........... and ............
Pillow lave
Spreading zones
Mid-ocean ridges
Convergent bounderies
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P-waves (Chose two)
Moves side to side
Move forward and backward
Only moves through liquids
Travel through solids, liquids, and gases
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Metamorphic rocks
Comes from P-waves
Comes from S-waves
Comes from deep in the Earths crust
Comes from Earths serface
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P-waves travel faster than S-waves?
False
True
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major tectonic plates
African, Antarctic, and Eurasian plates
Indo Australian plate
There are non
North American, Pacific, South American plates
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The center of the Earth
Core
Crust
Pangea
Beluga
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Harry Hess is known for his theory of sea-floor spreading
False
True
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Continental drift
Continents moved over time
Moves continents move by Sea-floor spreading
Moves continents by wind
Moves continents by ships
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Tectonic Plate
Moves in the mantle
Plates that never move
Pieces of the lithosphere that move over the Asthenosphere
Is in the crust
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Mantle
Solid but flows, thickest layer
Straight liquid of Earths mantle
The coldest part of Earth
The hottest part of the Earth
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Metamorphic rock is formed under
High heat, no pressure
No heat, pressure
Low heat, no pressure
High heat and pressure
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S-waves travel faster than P-waves?
True
False
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How many major tectonic plates are there?
15
20
2
7
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Basaltic lava flows under water, surface cools, forming crust
Gneiss
Mid-ocean ridges
Pillow Lava
Trench
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Convection (pick two)
Colder and denser materials sink
hotter and less dense materials sink
hotter and less dense materials rise
Colder and denser materials rise
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Seismologist
A scientist that studies heat waves
A scientist that studies plate tectonics
A scientist that studies seismic waves
A scientist that studies animals
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Convection Cells
Cells from a dead animal
Warm material rises in the center and cold material sinks at the edge
Warm material sinks at the edge and cold material rises in the center
Collide forming mountain ranges
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Asthenophere
Is below the mantle, in the outer core.
is not existent.
Is the first layer.
Outermost part of lower mantle
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Collide forming Mountain Range
Transform fault
Continental plates
Divergent plates Boundaries
Convergent plate boundaries
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Mountain ranges that form continuous chain along ocean floor
Subduction
Plate tectonics
Pillow lava
Mid-ocean ridges
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A sideways or downward movement of the edge of a plate sliding beneath another plate
Sea floor spreading
Continental drift
Subduction
Seismic waves
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The youngest crust is near mid-ocean ridges and spreading zones
False
True
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Convergent boundaries (choose two)
Two Continental plates meet
Move towards one another
Found on continents and rife valleys
Move away from one another
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Trench
A narrow valley caused by earthquakes
A long street caused by people
short depressions caused by the coriolis effect
long narrow depressions on the seafloor caused by subduction
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The oldest crust is near mid-ocean ridges and spreading zones
False
True
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Foliation
Process of tectonic plates connecting
Process of limestone layering
Process of layering kittens
repetitive layering of metamorphic rock
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Lithosphere
Contains Crust and thin Upper mantle
The Outer Core
In the Asthenosphere
Is the Core
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Seismic waves
Caused by a sudden vibrations traveling through Earth
Caused by a big Rihno
Caused by a big ship
Caused by a big wave
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The process of divergent plates lead to undersea mountains
Sea-floor spreading
Subduction
P-waves
S-waves
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Helps drive tectonic plates on the surface of Earth
Convection cells
Core
Divergent plates
Seismic waves
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Two plates slide past one another
Continental plates
Transform fault
Divergent plate boundaries
Convergent Pate boundaries
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Alfred Wegener is known for his theory of continental drift
False
True
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Occurs when two plates come together
Convergent Pate boundaries
Divergent plate boundaries
Continental plates
Transform fault
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Steep depression in the deepest part of the ocean
Pangea
Deep ocean trench
Sea-floor spreading
Tectonic plates
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Occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other
Convergent plate boundaries
Transform fault
Continental plates
Divergent plate boundaries
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Crust
The lowest layer
Biggest part of Earth
Liquid iron
The uppermost layer
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Pangea
Was in the Earths layers
Was many continents
slowly came together over time
Was a single continent
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Plate tectonics
Organism rise to the surface
lave-oreiller
Rock layering on top of each other
The study of lithospheric plates
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A high heat flow zone in the mantle
Mid-ocean ridges
Subduction
Lithosphere
Mantle plume
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S-waves (choose two)
Can travel through liquids, gases, and solids
Move in a side to side motion
Can travel through Solids
Move in a forward and back motion
