Earth's Layers and Alfred Wegener

This is the layer of Earth that we live on

• Inner core

• Outer Core

• Crust

• Mantle

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This layer of Earth is the thickest part.

• crust

• outer core

• mantle

• inner core

The layer that lies beneath the mantle and surrounds the inner core. 

• mantle

• outer core

• inner core

• crust

According to Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift,

• Earth's surface is made up of seven major landmasses

• the continents DO NOT move

• Earth is slowly cooling and shrinking

• the continents were once joined together in a single landmass, and these plates will continue to move.

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Identify the layers of the Earth shown in the diagram.

a

b

c

d

Mantle

Outer Core

Crust

Inner Core

Which point is the Outer Core?

How is it possible for new crust to be formed without increasing the surface area of the Earth?

• Crust is destroyed at the same time it is created

• New crust is underwater where it sinks

• New crust breaks more easily than old crust

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Who is the scientist who proposed Continental Drift Theory?

• Albert Einstein

• Alfred Wegener

• Isaac Newton

• John Dalton

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Plate movement is caused by ____________.

• the rotation of the Earth

• convection currents in the mantle

• ocean tides

• the moon's gravity

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Which of the following lists the Earth's layers from innermost to outermost?

• Inner Core, Crust, Lithosphere, Asthenosphere

• Inner core, Outer Core, Mantle, Crust

• Outer Core, Inner Core, Mantle, Crust

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