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Earth's Internal Processes
Earth's Internal Processes
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Plate tectonics, earthquakes, earths core, volcanos
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1
Volcanic activity at these sites goes mostly unnoticed because it's under the sea.
Divergent boundaries
Convergent boundaries
Hot spots
2
What type of thermal currents circulate molten magma inside earth that move plates?
Radiation
Convection
All answers
Conduction
3
The first "super continent" was named____________.
Jurasica
Pangea
Laurasia
Cretacia
4
Most of earth's volcanoes are found _____________________.
on plate boundaries
in the middle of plates
on coastlines
5
When a convergent tectonic plate dives under another plate.
Subduction Zone
Divergent Zone
Convergent Zone
Transformation
6
What type of plate boundry is pictured?
Convergent
Transform
Divergent
Subduction
7
The theory of movement of continents over millions of years in know as continental ________.
separation
movement
conversion
drift
8
Its
POSSIBLE
for a tsunami to be created without an earthquake.
DON'T KNOW
FALSE
TRUE
9
The uppermost layer of the mantle that consists of solid rock and other rocky material.
Outer Core
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
Inner Core
10
What are the boundaries between different density layers in the earth called?
Refraction
Discontinuity
Shadow zones
11
.The earth's outer core is __________.
liquid & not penetrated by S-waves
not penetrated by S-waves
solid
liquid
12
These earthquake waves are slower and can only travel through solids.
Secondary waves
Primary waves
Seismic waves
13
The location where the an earthquake happens under ground is know an the _________.
Focus
Epicenter
Tsunami
Subduction
14
The force of an volcanic eruption depends on the magma's _____________.
All answers are correct
abundance of gases
silica content
water content
15
This type of volcano is gently sloped and very broad.
Shield
Cinder
Composite
Hawaiian
16
What type of volcano is pictured below?
Cinder
Composite
Shield
17
Which of the following is an example of continental drift?
All answers are correct
Coastlines that seem to fit together
Matching fossils
Matching mountain ranges
18
Other than the popular Richter scale, what other scale is used to measure earthquakes?
Epicenter
Mercalli
Wegener
Tsunami
19
Two plates moving away from each other is known as ______________.
Convergent plates
Subduction plates
Transform plates
Divergent plates