Earth's Layers
Earth's Moving Crust
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Miscellaneous
100
Differentiate between the asthenosphere and the lithosphere.
The lithosphere is rigid rock and the asthenosphere is made up of a soft plastic-like substance.
100
Describe what causes Earth's crust to move.
What are convection currents?
100

Give another name for P-waves.

What is compressional waves?

100
Describe how calderas are formed.
When the crater collapses, a large depression called a caldera forms.
100
Give the rate of speed at which the continental plates are moving.
What is 1-4 centimeters per year?
200
How do the inner core and outer core differ?
The inner core is solid, and the outer core is liquid.
200
Name the three types of boundaries.
What are divergent boundaries, convergent boundaries, and transform boundaries?
200
Name the three types of earthquake waves.
What are P-waves, S-waves, and L-waves?
200

The effect volcanoes have on Earth.

What are pyroclastic flows and lahars?

200
Give the number of the major tectonic plates.
What is seven?
300
List the four main layers of the Earth.
What are the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
300

Name three pieces of evidence supporting the idea of continental drift.

Identical fossils in Africa and S. America, similar rock beds on Africa and S. America, coal beds in Antarctica, glacial rocks in Africa.

300
Name the three types of faults.
What are normal faults, reverse faults, and strike-slip faults?
300
Name the three different types of volcanoes.
What are cinder cones, composite volcanoes, and shield volcanoes?
300
The thickness of the mantle, outer core, and inner core.
What is 1802 miles (Mantle) 1367 miles ( Outer core)

and 794 miles? (Inner core)

400
Describe how the flood might have made plate movements faster in the past.
The violent events during the Flood and geological changes during the Flood may have caused the Earth's plates to move quicker.
400
Describe seafloor spreading and continental drift.
Continental drift was the drifting of continents over long periods of time. Seafloor spreading is the process of forming new oceanic crust.
400
Name three ways earthquakes affect Earth.
What are landslides, tsunamis, and liquefaction?
400
Describe the cinder cone, composite volcano, and shield volcano.
(Cinder cone) Small, cone-shaped mountain, erupts volcanic ash and cinders (Composite volcano) Large mountain, erupts thick lava, volcanic ash, and cinders ( Shield Volcano ) Broad mountain, erupts runny lava
400

Describe uniformitarianism.

 The laws of nature have always been the same, natural processes have happened at the same rate, we should explain the data using processes we know now.

500

 The densities of continental crust and oceanic crust.

What is 2.7 g/cm3 and 3.3 g/cm3?

500
Describe magnetic reversal, depth of sediment, or radiometric dating.
(Magnetic reversal) Changes in the magnetic pattern of the ocean floor indicate reversals in Earth's magnetic field over time (Depth of sediment) The farther away the core samples are taken of the ocean floor from a spreading center, the deeper the sediments are (Radiometric dating) Radiometric dating of rocks also shows that rock ages increase with distance from a spreading center.
500
Name the three types of forces that occur during earthquakes.
What are compression force, tension force, and shear force?
500
Name five parts of a volcano.
What is a crater, parasitic cone, vent, throat, side vent, branch pipe, conduit pipe, and magma chamber?
500
The theory that states that Earth's lithosphere is broken into large slabs of rock.
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
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