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100
What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?
What is the lithosphere?
100
What is the liquid layer of the Earth’s core called?
What is the outer core?
100
What type of boundary is formed when plates separate?
What is divergent?
100
What is the area where two tectonic plates meet called?
What is a boundary?
100
What is the SI (metric) unit for measurement?
What is meter?
200
What type of boundary is formed when plates slide past each other?
What is a transform boundary?
200
The raising of a rock layer.
What is uplift?
200
What type of boundary is formed when plates collide?
What is convergent?
200
According to the continental drift theory, a single, huge continent once existed called
What is Pangaea?
200
What is the longest measurement? a. 40cm b. 280mm c. 1m d. 3dm
1m
300
What type of fault usually occurs because of tension?
What is a reverse fault?
300
Which of these did NOT provide evidence for continental drift?
a. sea-floor spreading b. oceanic plate theory c. the fossil record d. magnetic reversals
300
What type of fault usually occurs because of tension?
Normal fault
300
Where does sea-floor spreading take place?
Mid-ocean ridges
300
What are the SI (metric) units for temperature and mass (weight)?
celsius and kg
400
Stress that stretches a rock layer.
What is tension?
400
What is used as evidence for sea-floor spreading?
magnetic reversal
400
What kind of force can lead to mountains with sharp, jagged peaks?
What is tension?
400
Stress that squeezes a rock layer.
What is compresion?
400
Place the following in descending order: a. 40cm b. 280mm c. 1m d. 3dm
c,a,d,b
500
In a normal fault, where does the hanging wall move relative to the foot-wall?
downward
500
Used as evidence for continental drift.
What are fossils?
500
In a reverse fault, where does the hanging wall move relative to the foot-wall?
What is upward?
500
The sinking of a rock layer.
What is subsidence?
500
How many centimeters are in 13.4km?
1,340,000cm