Inside the Earth

What is layer A?

• crust

• inner core

• outer core

• mantle

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What is layer B?

• crust

• inner core

• outer core

• mantle

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The process of ocean crust sinking beneath continental crust is called

• subduction

• convection

• continental drift

• sea-floor spreading

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What type of boundary is shown here?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

• Strike-slip

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What causes plate tectonics?

• Ocean waves caused by earthquakes

• moon's gravitational pull on Earth

• convection currents in the asthenosphere

• intense heat from the inner core

How did Hawaii form in the middle of a tectonic plate?

• It is at a subduction zone.

• It is on a "hot spot".

• It is at a divergent zone.

• It is no longer active.

Ho do active volcanoes create more land?

• Lava cools and hardens forming more land.

• Lava melts old rock and exposes more land.

• Volcanic heat causes ocean to evaporate.

• Volcanic heat causes minerals to condense into land.

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If this egg was the Earth's lithosphere, where would earthquakes happen?

• along the cracks

• on the smooth parts

• at the bottom

• at the top

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What happens at a subduction zone?

• massive storms

• formation of valleys

• strong drought

• earthquakes and volcanoes

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What forms at a convergent zone with an oceanic plate and a continental plate?

• Trenches and volcanoes

• mountains and valleys

• faults and earthquakes

• underwater mountains

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