Earth - Layers & Plate Tectonics

Michael and Jose are studying about plate tectonics. They learned that plates usually move a few centimeters every year. They learned that the movement of heated material caused the plates to move. In which layer does the heated material move?

• Inner Core

• Outer Core

• Mantle

• Crust

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The Atlantic Ocean is growing in size by about one centimeter per year. How does an ocean become larger?

• Oceanic plates are moving apart.

• The density of the oceanic plates is decreasing.

• Increased air temperatures are increasing evaporation.

• Trenches are formed by oceanic plates sliding under continental plates.

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In some places on Earth, large tectonic plates are moving toward each other and collide with great force. One such place is where the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate meet.

What would you expect to occur where these two tectonic plates collide?

• Only volcanoes

• Only earthquakes

• A rift valley and volcanoes

• Mountains and earthquakes

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Transform boundaries cause?

Word bank: earthquakes, volcanic islands, underwater volcanoes

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Divergent boundaries cause?

Word bank: earthquakes, volcanic islands, underwater volcanoes

Which layer of the Earth is the thickest?

• Inner Core
• Mantle
• Crust
• Outer Core

What is a difference between oceanic & continental crust?

• Continental is thicker
• Oceanic is thicker
• Continental is made of basalt
• Oceanic is made of granite

What is the hottest layer of the Earth?

• inner core

• lithosphere

• crust

• mantle

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What is the driving force behind plate tectonics?

• convection currents
• magnetic reversal
• volcanic eruption
• subduction zones

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Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

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