Layers of the Earth & Plate Tectonics

Question 1

This occurs when rock layers BREAK because of stress in the Earth’s crust

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Fault lines

Question 2

What land feature would be created if these two boxes represented 2 continental tectonic plates?

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Fault Block Mountains & Rift Valley

Question 3

Deepsea trenches form when

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at least 1 oceanic plate converges with a less dense plate.

Question 4

Makes up most of the Earth’s mass

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Mantle

Question 5

What land feature would be created if these 2 boxes represented 2 oceanic tectonic plates?

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Volcanic island arc & Trench

Question 6

Layer of the Earth on which the tectonic plates move

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Asthenosphere

Question 7

What land feature would be created if these 2 boxes represented 2 continental tectonic plates?

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Folded Mountain

Question 8

Convection currents occur in the asthenosphere due to

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the uneven heating of the mantle.

Question 9

What land feature would be created if these two boxes represented 2 oceanic tectonic plates?

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All of the above

Question 10

Only type of mountain formed by adding new material to the Earth’s surface

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Volcanic

Question 11

Most major mountain ranges form where?

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Plate boundary

Question 12

Which type of mountain is formed from oceanic plate convergence?

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B

Question 13

2.Why does the Nazca plate subduct under the South American plate?

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The 2 plates are converging & the Nazca plate is denser.

Question 14

Density differences cause the _______.

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lithosphere to float over the asthenosphere

Question 15

What land feature would be created if these two boxes represented 2continental tectonic plates?

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Only earthquakes

Question 16

Mountains caused by rock layers tilting up are due to

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Continental plates diverging

Question 17

Continental plate convergence forms

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tall folded mountains

Question 18

What land feature would be created if these two boxes represented 2 oceanic tectonic plates?

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Earthquake & Tsunami

Question 19

Types of mountains found along the “Ring of Fire”

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Volcanic

Question 20

Jelly-like layer of Earth

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Asthenosphere

Question 21

Which of Earth's layers is densest?

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Inner Core

Question 22

Number 4

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Indo-Australian

Question 23

It is divided into tectonic plates and is the outermost layer of the earth?

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Lithosphere

Question 24

Process by which regions of the Earth’s crust rise to higher elevations

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Uplift

Question 25

Each of the above models are_____________.

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showing similar information about Earth’s layers

Question 26

Crustal movement _______

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both a and b

Question 27

Mid-ocean ridges form when

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oceanic plates diverge.

Question 28

Mountains form when

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continental plates diverge

Question 29

Layer of Earth that is liquid

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Outer Core

Question 30

Number 8

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Nazca

Question 31

Number 13

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Eurasian

Question 32

Number 1

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African

Question 33

Place where two tectonic plates meet

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Plate boundary

Question 34

Deepsea trenches form when

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oceanic plates converge.

Layers of the Earth & Plate Tectonics

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Layers of the Earth & Plate Tectonics

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