RC unit 3 Exam

What is your name?

What class period do you have Earth Space Science?

• 1st Period
• 2nd Period
• 3rd Period
• 4th Period
• 5th Period

What is the correct order of Earth’s radial layers based on temperature starting from hottest to coolest?

• crust, outer core, inner core, mantle
• inner core, outer core, mantle, crust
• crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
• outer core, inner core, crust, mantle

Identify the plate boundary shown in the picture AND the result of the motion shown.

• divergent and an earthquake occurs
• transform and a volcano is formed
• convergent and an earthquake occurs
• convergent and a mountain is formed

(Select 2 answers) Describe what happens to a fluid when its temperature increases.

• Its particles settle together more closely.
• Its density decreases.
• Its particles move more slowly.
• Its particles occupy more space.

What natural phenomenon generates seismic waves ?

• Earthquakes
• the amount of water on earth
• Thunderstorms
• Tornadoes

The figure shows the transfer of thermal energy through a gas or liquid by the hotter material moving into a cooler area. What layer of Earth does this occur in?

• Outer core
• Crust
• Mantle
• Inner Core

The oceanic and continental crust and rigid upper mantle make up Earth’s ____________?

• inner core
• asthenosphere
• lithosphere
• continents

The alignment of iron minerals in rocks when they are formed reflects the fact that Earth’s ______________ has reversed itself several times in the past.

• magnetic field
• gravity
• core
• asthenosphere

(Select 2 answers) Seafloor spreading occurs because?

• new material is being added to the asthenosphere
• divergent plate boundaries spread apart the ocean floor
• sediments disintegrate at the area of spreading
• molten material beneath Earth’s crust rises to the surface