Earth's Layers
Rock Cycle
Tectonic Plate ID
Tectonic Plate Boundaries
Misc
100

This is a solid piece of nickel and iron.

The inner core

100

which of the following would represent cooling in the rock cycle?

weathered      solidified    reworked    firmed


solidified

100

What is the name of the plate numbered 1?

Pacific

100

When an earthquake occurs it is the movement of what two parts of the earth?

crust and mantle

mountains and oceans

glaciers and volcanoes

crust and mantle

100

You make a model of the earths layers.  How does the thickness of the lithosphere compare to the thickness of the crust?

the lithosphere is thicker than the crust

200

I make up most of the earth's interior

Mantle

200

basic rock type that was melted and cooled below ground

igneous

200

What plate is numbered 4?

African

200

When to oceanic plates collide the denser oceanic plate will ___________ under the less dense plate.

subduct

200

List the layers of the earth in order from the middle to the surface of the earth.

Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust

300

I make up the crust and upper mantle

lithosphere

300

A student made a lemon drop candy by melting sugar, water, and lemon flavoring in a pan.  They poured the clear yellow mixture on a baking sheet and let it cool.  What type of rock is formed this way?

Igneous

300

What plate is numbered 2?

North American

300

At a divergent boundary space is created between two plates, melted rock fills this space and cools forming _________  __________   __________.

new ocean floor

300

What happen to magma to form a igneous rock?

cooling and hardening

400

I am the thinnest of all the layers

Crust

400

Long periods of heat and pressure result in the formation of this rock.

metamorphic

400

What plate is numbered 5?

South American

400

Which of the following methods would best describe how the mountains form?

drop pennies into a pile

drip water on the sides of sugar cubes

push two towels together

push two towels together

400

Between what two plates would an ocean boundary most likely form?


South American and African

North American and African

North American and Eurasion

500

What part of an apple would represent the crust of the earth?

The skin

500

What process happens to limestone to turn it into the metamorphic rock marble?

long periods of heat and pressure

500

What type of plate boundaries caused the Rockies and the Appalachian mountains found in the United States?

convergent

500

What two plates form the transform boundary found in California?

North American and Pacific

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