Earth's Geosphere

Continental crust is younger than oceanic crust.

• True

• False

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Convection causes tectonic plates to move.

• True

• False

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How did Iceland form?

• erosion

• colliding tectonic plates

• glacial movements

• diverging tectonic plates

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Japan was created when two oceanic plates converged and they created ____________.

• folded mountain ranges

• rift valley

• volcanic island arcs

• new ocean crust

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This is Earth’s hard outer layer that is broken into large slabs known as tectonic plates.

• asthenosphere

• core

• mesosphere

• lithosphere

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Plates move apart at ____________ boundaries.

• convergent

• transform

• stable

• divergent

Scientists learn about the interior structure of Earth through measurement of the speed and direction of _________________________.

• volcanoes

• tectonic plate movement

• seismic waves

• tsunamis

What inner plastic layer of Earth is located beneath the lithosphere?

• asthenosphere

• inner core

• mesosphere

• outer core

An example of a ________________ boundary is when two continental plates move together and build a folded mountain range.

• transform boundary

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• deformed boundary

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What often occurs at tectonic plate boundaries?

• mountain building

• increased erosion

• thinning of the biosphere

• increasing air pressure

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