Your Inner Earth
You Rock
Location, Location, Location
Tectonically Speaking
Hodgepodge
100
Put these layers in the correct order from center to outer layer: crust, outer core, lithosphere, inner core
What is inner core, outer core, lithosphere, crust?
100
Continental crust+ Oceanic crust + the upper part of the mantle =
What is "the lithosphere"?
100
The title of this map:
What is The Ring of Fire?
100
The best answer to describe the movement of Earth's plates is: A. The plates moved 1 million years ago but have stopped moving now. B. No evidence shows the plates have ever moved. C. The plates are constantly moving. D. There are no plates.
What is C. The plates are constantly moving.
100
Lithospheric plates "float" on this.
What is the asthenosphere?
200
Due to extreme pressure the inner core of the Earth is (state of matter)
What is solid?
200
The solid layers of the earth.
What is crust, upper mantle and inner core? (also acceptable: lithosphere, inner core)
200
The coolest and thinnest layer of Earth is the __________________ and the hottest layer of the Earth is the ________________
What is the crust, inner core?
200
One possible outcome that may occur when 2 tectonic plates collide is one plate sinks beneath another and goes down into the mantle.
This process is:
What is subduction?
200
The theory of continental drift states that the positions of Earth's continents have slowly changed over millions of years. The diagram below illustrates some evidence that supports the theory of continental drift. Name two things visible in this diagram that can be used as evidence!
What are (choose 2):
a. the puzzle like fit of the coasts of South America and Africa
b. the presence of (non-swimming) identical reptile fossils on continents now separated by oceans
c. the presence of plant fossils in Antarctica
300
The state of matter of the outer core.
What is liquid?
300
The name for these
What isa volcanic island arc? (Island arc also acceptable)
300
Extreme heat and pressure takes place ________________ the surface of the Earth.
What is beneath the surface of the Earth?
300
An example of a _________________ boundary is when the edges of tectonic plates shift and release energy. The geological event that results from the sudden release of energy is an _________________.
What is transform boundary, earthquake?
300
Scientist known for idea of moving tectonic plate.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
400
An avocado could be used to model the Earth's layers. Describe how the layers of the earth are modeled by the avocado. Accept reasonable answers.
What is the skin is like the crust, the flesh is like the mantle, the pit is like the inner and outer core combined.
400
The type of rock found at a mid ocean ridge, given these choices:
a. extrusive igneous rock
b. sedimentary rock
c. metamorphic rock
d. who knows!
What is "extrusive igneous rock"?
400
Type of boundary where mountains form (like the Himalayas)
What is convergent?
400
Our activity, Mapping Volcanoes and Earthquakes showed us that most earthquakes and volcanoes happen:
A. in Texas
B. on continental plates
C. along plate boundaries
D. on oceanic plates
What is C. along plate boundaries
400
The type of plate boundary where mid ocean ridges are found.
What is DIVERGENT O-O
500
The continental crust and the oceanic crusts float on top of the mantle because the continental and oceanic crusts are:
A. more dense than mantle
B. made of helium
C. are liquid layers
D. less dense than mantle
What is less dense than the mantle?
500
Once living organisms can be found in this rock:
A. Obsidian (igneous)
B. Basalt (igneous)
C. Limestone (sedimentary)
D. Marble (metamorphic)
What is C. Limestone
500
Type of boundary formed when an oceanic crust moves toward a continental crust
What is convergent boundary?
500
The diagram below shows the major tectonic (lithospheric) plates on Earth.
Identify the type of plate boundary between the Pacific Plate and the Nazca Plate
What is DIVERGENT?
500
The name for this geological feature. (hint: it is Iceland)
What is a "rift valley"? (just "rift" okay, too)