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Earth Science (Layers-Erosion)
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What is happening at letter B?
Erosion
Deposition
Transforming
Weathering
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What is responsible for moving magma in the mantle, causing our earth's crust to move?
Lava
Volcanoes
Iron
Convection Currents
3
What type of plate boundaries move towards each other?
Converging
Diverging
Submerging
Fault
4
What happens as you get closer to earth's core?
The magma cools
The magma breaks through the crust
It gets hotter
Earthquakes happen
5
What is the picking up and movement of pieces of earth's crust called?
Sedimenting
Physical Weathering
Chemical Weathering
Erosion
6
What is responsible for forming our Minnesota lakes, streams, and valleys by causing erosion?
Glaciers
Cooling of Magma
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
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What is responsible for the crust sliding plates past eachother?
Tension
Compression
Shearing
Faults
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What layer does letter C represent?
Crust
Mantle
Outer Core
Inner Core
9
All living things are found on the crust.
False
True
10
What are the 2 types of earth's crust?
Volcano and Glacier
Geosphere and atmosphere
Oceanic and Continental
Glacier
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What layer does letter D represent?
Crust
Inner Core
Mantle
Outer Core
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What are the inner and outer core made of?
Copper
Crystals
Magma
Iron
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What layer does letter B represent?
Mantle
Crust
Inner COre
Outer Core
14
What type of plate boundaries move away from each other?
Diverging
Mountains
Converging
Submerging
15
What causes rivers to travel "snake like" across the land? The Grand Canyon is an example of this.
Glaciers
Deltas
Tectonic plates
Meanders
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What layer does letter A represent?
Outer Core
Mantle
Inner Core
Crust
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The breaking apart of earth's crust into smaller pieces is called?
Transforming
Deposition
Weathering
Continental Drift
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What is the name of the "super continent" before they moved away from each other?
Pandora
Australia
Mesotonic
Pangea
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What is happening at letter C?
Weathering
Erosion
Deposition
Transforming
20
What is responsible for the crust moving plates away from each other?
Shearing
Tension
Volcanoes
Compression
21
What is happening at letter A?
Weathering
Erosion
Convection
Deposition
22
How many major tectonic plates are there that we labeled in class?
7
100
2
25
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What is it called when a weathered piece of rock is "dropped off" at the end of its erosion journey?
Compression
Deposition
Fault
Subduction
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What is a fault?
Crust that surrounds the edge of each continent
Crack in earth's crust
Where a plate boundary is
Eroded piece of crust
25
What type of weathering is caused by wind, water, freezing/thawing?
Physical Weathering
Uplift Weathering
Chemical Weathering
Deposition Weathering
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How do scientists know the core is solid?
The core isn't solid, earthquakes can be felt on the opposite side of earth
Earthquake cannot be felt on the opposite side of the earth.
Cooled magma is made out of iron, and iron is a solid.
The tested rock samples from the core and predicted what it is made from.
27
Most earthquakes happen at plate boundaries.
True
False
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What type of plate boundaries slide past each other?
Diverging
Converging
Transformative
Faults
29
How was the state of Hawaii formed?
Glaciers
Underwater Earthquakes
Underwater Volcanoes
Continental Drift
30
What does magma become when it breaks through earth's crust?
Lava
Obsidian
Metamorphic Rock
Crystals
31
What type of weathering is caused by certain acids and rust?
Chemical Weathering
Erosion
Physical Weathering
Deposition
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What is responsible for the crust moving plates towards each other?
Faults
Tension
Compression
Shearing
