unit 5 Earths systems and materials test

The Himalayas Mountain Ranges are an example of landmasses formed when two continental plates separate.

Divergent plate boundaries happen in areas where tectonic plates ____________________. 

Which of the following is the result of the movement and interaction of the tectonic plates? 

Which layer is made up of solid iron and nickel? 

________ is the transfer of heat due to the movement of fluid from high temperature to low temperature.

The mouth of a volcano. A steep-walled depression at the peak of a volcano.

Transform plate boundaries happen in areas where tectonic plates ____________________. 

Which process caused the eruption of water trapped inside minerals with lava? 

The layers of the Earth in order from surface down to center are:

This is an opening in the Earth’s surface where volcanic materials escape

Which of the Earth’s layers is thinnest and amounts only to 1 percent of the Earth’s total mass? 

This is magma that has reached the Earth’s surface when a volcano erupts. It solidifies when it cools.

Which layer is made up of mainly igneous rock like granite? 

Conduction is the transfer of energy through empty space, there is no direct contact between a heat source and object.

______________ is the size of the earthquake and the amount of energy released at the source of the earthquake.

___ travel through the Earth at the greatest speed. These waves are the first ones to be recorded by a seismograph.

It is an irregularly shaped huge slab of solid rock that is moving in different directions.

Which layer is responsible for the earth’s magnetic field? 

Which of the following plays a huge role in the formation and destruction of the materials on the Earth’s crust? 

What do researchers use to collect information on ocean floors?

Which among the following consist of seas ocean and other bodies of water? 

Which of the following is the thickest layer of the Earth?  

idea of a supercontinent that broke into pieces and move away from each other 200 million years ago, led to ___

According to Alfred Wegener, what causes the movement or drifting of continents toward and apart from each other? 

Hot and semi-liquid rock found beneath the Earth’s surface

Directly above the focus is the ___________, where the strongest shaking of the ground is most felt

A supercontinent that joined the Earth’s landmasses and broke apart about 200 million years ago.

According to Wegener, which continents could fit together like puzzle pieces? 

Which is responsible for mountain building, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and the formation of continents and oceans?

The heat from the radioactive decay of elements deep in the interior of the earth creates magma in the ______________. 

Ocean crust disappear into ______ at subduction zones, re-incorporated back into asthenosphere. 

In 1912, Harry Hess wrote articles about the concept of continental drift.

Which of the following happens when two plates slide past each other in different directions? 

The role of convection in the atmosphere is the exchange of heat and particles between the surface and the atmosphere.

The lowest point on Earth is the Puerto Rico Trench

__________ on the other hand measures the level of damage an earthquake has caused and the degree of shaking

Huge ___ currents in the asthenosphere, where less dense magma breaks apart the plates at spreading centers.

Where do the interaction and movement of the tectonic plates happen? 

Convection current in molten rock or _____________causes the tectonic plate to move.

Trenches are long and narrow depressions that form when continental plates subduct beneath the continental plates

Which of the following is the most stable and oldest part of the continental crust? 

___________are cracks in the Earth’s crust between two massive plates. 

In oceanic-continent convergence, the oceanic plate subducts since it is denser than the continental plate.

An underground pipe or passage where magma travels through

The Earth’s surface is rich in sedimentary rocks, formed by the cooling of magma, like granite and basal

Which of the following supports Wegener’s fossil evidence?

Which of the following statements describe continental drift theory? 

The mid-oceanic ridges are areas in the ocean floor formed from volcanic eruptions along the cracks in the ocean floor.

In seafloor spreading theory, the outermost layer of the Earth is broken into a large, irregularly shaped slab of rock.

Convergent plate boundaries happen in areas where tectonic plates ____________________.