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Plate Tectonics, Layers of the earth & volcanos Review
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What type of boudary is shown?
Subduction
Diverge
Converge
Transfrom
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The Earth is made of many layers. Which layer is made up of part crust and partmantle material?
Asthenosphere
Inner Core
Outer Core
Lithosphere
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Two plates moving apart is called:
Diverge
Converge
Subduction
Transform
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is a large basin-like depression that resulted from the explosion or collapse of the center of a volcano.
igneous intrusion
laccolith
subduction zone
caldera
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What is plasticity?
A liquid that flows
A solid that flows
A solid
A gas
6
If plate F and B are diverging what is likely to occur at the plate boundary?
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Volcanoes
Rift Valley
Mountain Range
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The solid layer with plasticity in the upper mantle; located just below the lithosphere.
Crust
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
Plasticity
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What is the name of plate A?
Indo-Australian
North American
Eurasian
Pacific
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Made of
liquid
nickel and iron.
Mantle
Crust
Outer Core
Inner Core
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How do the thicknesses of the lithosphere and crust compare?
The lithosphere is exactly the same thickness as the crust.
The lithosphere is thicker than the crust.
The lithosphere is thinner than the crust.
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What is the name of plate F?
Eurasian
Indo-Australian
South American
African
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What causes the plates to move?
Thickness of the layers
Convection currents
Density of the crust
Temperature of the Crust.
13
Who is the father of continental drift which led to the theory of plate tectonic?
Albert Einstein
Alfred Wegener
Edwin Hubble
Issac Newton
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lithospheric plates “float” and move on this layer
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
Plasticity
Crust
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What is the name of plate A?
Indo-Australian
Eurasian
North American
South American
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What is the name of plate C?
Pacific
Indo-Australian
South American
North American
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Which layer has plasticity?
Lithosphere
Outer Core
Inner Core
Asthenosphere
18
What is the best reason to use an apple to model the layers of the Earth?
The stem of an apple comes form the core like the North Pole
The apple is made of the same material throughout
The seeds are light like the inner core is light
This skin of the apple is very thin like the crust
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What type of boudary is shown?
Transfrom
Diverge
Converge
Subduction
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What type of boudary is shown?
Transfrom
Subduction
Converge
Diverge
21
Between the crust and the core; made of dense silicates
Outer Core
Mantle
Crust
Inner Core
22
What is the name of plate B?
Indo-Australian
North American
South American
African
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Volcano made of alternating layers of lava and pyroclastic; erupts very violently.
Shield
Composite Cone
Cinder Cone
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What do the dotted lines represent on the map?
Convergent
Transform
Plate Boundaries
Subduction Zones
25
The boundary between Plate E and C is a transform boundary. What event is likely to occur?
Earthquake
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Volcano
Sinkhole
26
Two plates moving together is called:
Transform
Diverge
Ocean basin
Converge
27
What event will occur at the boundary shown?
Mountain Building
Volcano
Earthquake
Mid-Ocean Ridge
28
Volcano made from thin flowing lava; continuously erupts.
Shield
CompositeCone
Cinder Cone
29
What is the name of plate D?
Indo-Australian
North American
Eurasian
South American
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A volcano made of pyroclastic material not very big
Cinder Cone
Composite Cone
Shield
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What type of plate boundary forms great mountain ranges?
Subduction
Convergent
Transform
Divergent
