Earth's Structure

What is the name of the outer layer of the Earth?

• Crust

• Core

• Mantle

• Tectonic Plate

Which layer contains semi-molten rock?

• Crust

• Mantle

• Core

• Tectonic Plate

The crust is broken up into chunks. What is the name of these slabs of the crust?

• Plate Boundaries

• Mantle Plates

• Tectonic Plates

• Plate Margins

What process makes the tectonic plates move?

• Sea floor spreading

• Convection currents

• Subduction

• Fold mountains

There are 2 types of crust. Oceanic which is heavy and ______________ which is lighter.

Earthquakes ansd volcanoes occur at the edge of the tectonic plates (where 2 plates meet). What is this zone called?

• Plate lip

• Plate rim

• Plate belt

• Plate boundary

What type of plate boundary has 2 tectoinc plate sliding passed each other and getting stuck? When they snap free they produce large earthquakes.

• Constructive boundary

• Conservative boundary

• Collision boundary

• Destructive boundary

At which plate margin would you expect to see subduction (Where one plate gets pushed below another)?

• Constructuve margin

• Conservative margin

• Collision margin

• Destructive margin

Which of these islands is formed at a constructive margin (where 2 plates move away from each other)?

• Australia

• Japan

• Iceland

• Hawaii

On which tectonic plate does the UK lie?

• Eurasian

• Nazca

• North American

• Mediterranean