Layers of the Earth, Tectonic Plates, and Continental Drift

Question 1

Scientists think movement of tectonic plates is caused by which of the following processes?

Accepted Answer

Convection Currents

Question 2

What plate boundaries are responsible for earthquakes?

Accepted Answer

All three

Question 3

Which part of the Earth is in liquid form?

Accepted Answer

Outer Core

Question 4

What type of boundary is it when an ocean plate meets a continental plate?

Accepted Answer

Convergent

Question 5

What rock is found mostly in continental crust?

Accepted Answer

granite

Question 6

What layer is number 3?

Accepted Answer

outer core

Question 7

When two plates meet at a ______, waves of energy erupt into an earthquake

Accepted Answer

fault

Question 8

The vibrations produced by earthquakes are detected, recorded, and measured by what instrument?

Accepted Answer

seismograph

Question 9

Alfred Wegener showed that the sea floor was spreading and moved the continents

Accepted Answer

False

Question 10

The picture is an example of what kind of plate boundary?

Accepted Answer

Divergent

Question 11

Which type of crust is more dense?

Accepted Answer

Oceanic

Question 12

How do scientists know about the structure of the Earth’s interior?

Accepted Answer

Seismic Waves from Earthquakes

Question 13

In an earthquake, this series of waves arrives second but is responsible for most of the damage

Accepted Answer

surface waves

Question 14

Which zone or layer of the Earth is made up of liquid iron?

Accepted Answer

Outer core

Question 15

The picture is an example of what kind of plate boundary?

Accepted Answer

Convergent

Question 16

Which is thicker, but less dense?

Accepted Answer

continental crust

Question 17

What rock is found mostly in oceanic crust?

Accepted Answer

basalt

Question 18

Temperature and pressure increase toward the center of the Earth.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

Continents were once joined together in a single large landmass called what?

Accepted Answer

Pangaea

Question 20

These are the fastest seismic waves and they can travel through solids, liquids, and gases

Accepted Answer

P wave (primary or pressure)

Question 21

The layers of Earth from inside to out are

Accepted Answer

Core, Mantle, Crust

Question 22

The outermost rigid layer of Earth that includes the crust and the upper mantle is called _____

Accepted Answer

Lithosphere

Question 23

Convection currents occur in the ____________.

Accepted Answer

Mantle

Question 24

What are two different types of crust?

Accepted Answer

Continental/Oceanic

Question 25

The mid ocean ridge is which one of the following?

Accepted Answer

Divergent Boundary

Question 26

The lithosphere floats on top of which layer?

Accepted Answer

asthenosphere

Question 27

What is true about the crust?

Accepted Answer

All of them are true

Question 28

At Mid-Ocean Ridges. . . . .

Accepted Answer

sea-floor spreading occurs.

Question 29

The lithosphere includes what two parts of the Earth?

Accepted Answer

upper mantle and crust

Question 30

What is the part of the Earth that is solid but has the ability to flow?

Accepted Answer

asthenosphere

Question 31

Magma that turns into rock at the mid ocean ridge, has iron crystals that record

Accepted Answer

Earth's magnetism

Question 32

What is the deepest layer of the Earth a person has ever gotten to?

Accepted Answer

the crust

Question 33

What feature is usually found over subduction zones?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 34

The surface of the Earth is called the:

Accepted Answer

Crust

Question 35

Which scientist proposed that the ocean floor was expanding around mid ocean ridges?

Accepted Answer

Harry Hess

Question 36

Continental-Continental,Oceanic-Oceanic,Continental-Oceanic are what plate boundary type?

Accepted Answer

Convergent

Question 37

What force is cited as the driving force that moves the ocean plates?

Accepted Answer

Convection Currents

Question 38

Which one of the following is not evidence for a one time supercontinent.

Accepted Answer

Magnetism

Question 39

What is it called when oceanic crust goes down into the mantle under the continental crust?

Accepted Answer

subduction zone

Question 40

What helped scientists to determine the inside of the Earth?

Accepted Answer

earthquakes

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