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Plate Tectonics and Earth's Layers
Plate Tectonics and Earth's Layers
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What are the
Compositional Layers
in order from the center of the Earth to the outermost layer?
Crust - Mantle - Core
Lithosphere - Asthenosphere - Mesosphere - Outer Core - Inner Core
Inner Core - Outer Core - Mesosphere - Asthenosphere - Lithosphere
Core - Mantle - Crust
2
What event is NOT explained by the movement of Tectonic Plates?
Eathquakes
Tornadoes
Volcanoes
Mountain Building
3
What is the density of the Earth's core?
13.0 g/cm3
What?!? The Earth's Layers have different densities?
3.0 g/cm3
5.7 g/cm3
4
Students use a hard boiled egg to model the
compositional layers
of the Earth. Which part represents the crust?
The Egg Whites
None of these
The Shell
The yellow Yolk
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What type of geological event occurs from an
oceanic
and
continental
plate moving into each other?
Volcanic Mountain Range
Rift Valley
Ocean Basin
Mountain Range
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What causes the movement of Earth's Tectonic Plates?
Convection Currents in the Outer Core
Convection Currents in the Asthenosphere
WHAT?!? The Tectonic Plates don't move!
Earthquakes
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Which Compositional Layer is the outermost layer?
Core
Mantle
Look at the picture if you are unsure...
Crust
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What is name of the soft mechanical layer on which the Tectonic Plates move?
Mesophere
Asthenosphere
Outer Core
Lithoshpere
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Which major tectonic plate is highlighted in the picture?
Pacific Plate
South American Plate
Indo-Australian Plate
African Plate
10
What is the MOST helpful to scientist in identifying the layers of the Earth?
Studying earthquakes
Studying the Moon
Studying the weather patterns
Drilling all the way through the Earth
11
What is the name of the Major Plate with the red dot?
African Plate
Eurasian Plate
North American Plate
South American Plate
12
The Pacific Plate is the only major plate NOT to contain a continent.
True
False
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Tectonic Plates are part of which Mechanical Layer of Earth?
Core
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
Mesosphere
14
What type of plates colliding create mountain ranges?
Oceanic Plate sliding past a Continental Plate
Continental Plate colliding into a Continental Plate
Oceanic Plate colliding into a Oceanic Plate
Continental Plate colliding into a Oceanic Plate
15
Which Compositional Layer is located between the crust and core?
If you pick Crust or Core for this, Really? Who's your science teacher?
Core
Mantle
Crust
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Why do we NOT experience earthquakes in Houston like those in California?
Texas is too big to be affected by earthquakes.
Texas does not have the right equipment to track earthquakes.
The North American Plate does not move like other plates.
There are NO plate boundaries near Houston like there are in California.
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Earthquakes and Volcanoes occur -
along tectonic plate boundaries.
at the edge of continents.
randomly.
in the middle of the ocean.
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What caused the Atlantic Ocean Basin?
Two Oceanic Plates divide
An Oceanic Plate and Continental Plate collide
Two Oceanic Plates collide
An Oceanic Plate and Continental Plate divide
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Which major tectonic plate is highlighted in the picture?
South American Plate
Indo-Australian Plate
African Plate
Pacific Plate
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What caused the Great African Rift Valley?
Two Continental Plates collide
An Oceanic Plate and Continental Plate collide
Two Continental Plates divide
An Oceanic Plate and Continental Plate divide
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Which Compositional Layer is the most dense?
Mantle
What does density have to do with Earth Layers?
Core
Crust
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What are the
Mechanical Layers
in order from the outermost layer to the center of the Earth?
Lithosphere - Asthenosphere - Mesosphere - Outer Core - Inner Core
Core - Mantle - Crust
Crust - Mantle - Core
Inner Core - Outer Core - Mesosphere - Asthenosphere - Lithosphere
