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Layers of the Earth and Plate Tectonics Stinson
Layers of the Earth and Plate Tectonics Stinson
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Which Layer is semi solid and made of Fe and Mg?
Crust
Inner Core
Outer Core
Mantle
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What plate would you find here?
South American
Indo-Australian
North American
African
3
What plate boundary would we find mountains?
Transform
Continental + Oceanic Convergent
Oceanic + Oceanic Convergent
Continental+ Continental Convergent
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Which 2 boundaries would you find volcanic eruptions?
Divergent and Convergent
Divergent and Transform
Convergent and Transform
5
What plate would you find on location Z?
North American
Indo-Australian
African
Eurasian
6
Which layer is the most dense?
Crust
Outer Core
Inner Core
Mantle
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What happens to the temperature as you go deeper into the Earth?
Fluctuates Up and Down
Decreases
Increases
Stays the same
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What would be happening between the Antarctic (W) plate and the African Plate (Y)?
Earthquakes
Mountain Building
Sea Floor Spreading
Tsunami
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What would be happening between the Indo-Australian Plate and the Eurasian Plate (Z)?
Earth Quakes
Mountain Ranges
Volcanoes
Sea Floor Spreading
10
What was the large "Super Continent" that broke apart and drifted to where we are today?
All Globe
Eurasia
Nazcal
Pangaea
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What does subduction create?
Mountain Ranges
Volcanic Ranges
Rift Valleys
Earthquakes
12
Where is North America?
Plate X
Plate Y
Plate W
Plate Z
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When would we find an earthquake?
Crash of a tsunami
violent shaking in the lithosphere
Convection of hot rock deep in the mantle
Movement of Tectonic plates along a boundary
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Which plate boundary would we find new ocean floor?
Transform
Convergent
Divergent
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Which Layer represents the Asthenosphere?
D
B
A
C
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What is the process that occurs in the mantle and moves the plates?
Conduction Currents
Lava Flow
Convection Currents
Magnetic Field
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What are the tectonic plates?
Part of the atmosphere
The "Glue" that holds the crust together
Large Puzzle Pieces of Earth's crust
Dinner Dishes
18
What plate would you find here?
South American
North American
African
Pacific
19
What plate would you find here?
Pacific
African
Indo-Australian
Antarctic
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Which layer is molten (Liquid) Fe and Ni?
Lithosphere
Mantle
Outer Core
Inner Core
