Question 1

Which of the following lists the COMPOSITIONAL layers of the Earth?

Accepted Answer

Core, Mantle, Crust

Answer

Inner Core, Outer Core, Crust

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Mantle, Athenosphere, Lithosphere

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Core, Asthenosphere, Lithosphere

Question 2

What does "mechanical" refer to?

Accepted Answer

Physical properties of layers

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Chemical properties of layers

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What the layers are made of

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Names of layers

Question 3

What type of crust do we live on?

Accepted Answer

Continental crust

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Mantle Crust

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Asthenospheric Crust

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Oceanic Crust

Question 4

Which type of crust is the thickest?

Accepted Answer

Continental crust

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Lithospheric Crust

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Oceanic crust

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The Mantle

Question 5

What is the name of the "ooey-gooey" layer?

Accepted Answer

Athenosphere

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Outer Core

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Lithosphere

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Inner Core

Question 6

Which layer is solid, even though it is REALLY, REALLY hot?

Accepted Answer

Inner Core

Answer

Crust

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Outer Core

Answer

Mantle

Question 7

Which layer can be divided into an upper, ooey-gooey part, and a lower part?

Accepted Answer

Mantle

Answer

Outer Core

Answer

Lithosphere

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Crust

Question 8

Which layer is liquid metal (mostly nickel and iron)?

Accepted Answer

Outer Core

Answer

Crust

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Inner Core

Answer

Mantle

Question 9

Which of the following what NOT something Wegener used as evidence for continental drift?

Accepted Answer

GPS

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Continents "fit" together

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Mountain ranges match up

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Same fossils on different continents

Question 10

What is the name of the supercontinent Wegener proposed?

Accepted Answer

Pangaea

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Laurasia

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All Earth

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Super Continent

Question 11

What couldn't Wegener do when it came to his idea about continental drift?

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Couldn't explain how it works

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Couldn't give any evidence

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Couldn't link it to the Theory of Plate Tectonics

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Couldn't explain why it happened

Question 12

What do we call action of two plates moving apart on the ocean floor?

Accepted Answer

Sea Floor Spreading

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Transform Boundary

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Conservative Boundary

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Convergent Boundary

Question 13

Which of the following is *NOT* true about the Theory of Plate Tectonics?

Accepted Answer

Plates float around on the outer core.

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Plates are created and destroyed at the same speed.

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Convection currents in the asthenosphere move the plates around.

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The lithosphere is broken into pieces (or plates).

Question 14

What happened to the size of the Atlantic Ocean in our activity?

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It got bigger over time.

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It moved north over time.

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It stayed the save over time.

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It got smaller over time.

Question 15

What is going to happen to India in the next 50 million years?

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It will disappear under Asia.

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It will stay in the same location.

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It will rejoin Pangaea.

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It will keep on drifting south.

Question 16

What type of boundary is shown in the picture?

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Divergent Boundary

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Sliding Boundary

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Convergent Boundary

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Transform Boundary

Question 17

What type of boundary is shown in the picture?

Accepted Answer

Convergent Boundary

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Transform Boundary

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Divergent Boundary

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Conservative Boundary

Question 18

What type of boundary is shown in the picture?

Accepted Answer

Transform/Sliding Boundary

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Divergent Boundary

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Convergent Boundary

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State Boundary

Question 19

In the picture, is crust being created, destroyed, or neither?

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Created

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Destroyed

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Neither

Question 20

In the picture, is crust being created, destroyed, or neither?

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Destroyed

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Neither

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Created

Question 21

In the picture, is crust being created, destroyed, or neither?

Accepted Answer

Neither

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Destroyed

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Created

Question 22

What happens to OCEANIC crust when it collides with CONTINENTAL crust?

Accepted Answer

The oceanic crust is subducted under the continental crust.

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The continental crust sinks below the oceanic crust.

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The crusts bump into each other and nothing happens.

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Both crusts are destroyed in the collision.

Question 23

Where would you find a SUBDUCTION ZONE?

Accepted Answer

Where one plate dives under another

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Where two plates are being pulled apart

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Where two plates slide past each other

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Where three plates come together equally

Question 24

What do we call the movement of a fluid due to differences in density?

Accepted Answer

Convection

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Confluence

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Conduction

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Coincidence

Question 25

What is "uniformitarianism"?

Accepted Answer

By understanding how things work today, we can understand how they worked in the past.

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When everything is the same, things will never change on Earth.

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By understanding how things are all the same, we can predict the future.

Question 26

What is the core of the Earth mostly made of?

Accepted Answer

Nickel and Iron

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Nickel and Magnesium

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Iron and Aluminum

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Silicon and Iron

Question 27

How do we know so much about the layers of the Earth?

Accepted Answer

Earthquakes

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Deep core samples

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Magnets

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Volcanoes

Question 28

Which layer is the thickest layer?

Accepted Answer

Mantle

Answer

Crust

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Inner Core

Answer

Outer Core

Question 29

Which layer is the thinnest?

Accepted Answer

Crust

Answer

Inner Core

Answer

Outer Core

Answer

Mantle

Question 30

Which of the following substances would sink to the bottom?

Accepted Answer

12.8 g/mL

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9.9 g/mL

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4.4 g/mL

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3.4 g/mL

Question 31

True or False:  The plates of the Earth are always moving.

Accepted Answer

True

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False

Question 32

True or False:  Alfred Wegener knew the continents were moving, but couldn't explain how

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 33

True or False:  Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics are the same thing.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 34

True or False:  We know what the Earth is made of because we have drilled to the center of it.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 35

Which type of crust is older?

Accepted Answer

Continental

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Oceanic

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