Science 6/7

Chapter 6 review

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DIRECTIONS: Write the correct answer as a complete sentence. Use the question in your answer.
1. Which layer of the Earth is a liquid?
2. What layer of the Earth are tectonic plates able to move on?
3.What is the name of the ancient continent that contained all the land masses is called?
4.What is the name of the tectonic plate boundary involving a collision between two tectonic plates?
5. What is the average thickness of continental crust?
6. What layer of the Earths lightest material make up?
7. Which layer makes up most of the Earths mass?
8. What type of boundary are continental mountain ranges usually associated with?
9.What type of tectonic plate boundary that sometimes has a subduction zone?
10. What two things increase as you move towards the center of the Earth?
11. The San Andreas is an example of what type of boundary?
12. Mid-ocean ridges are associated with what type of boundary?
13. Which layer of the Earth is made up of tectonic plates?
14. What are the three ways plates can move?
15. Which is denser, oceanic crust or continental crust?
16. What is the name of the strong, lower part of the mantle that lies beneath the asthenosphere?
17. What does the word lithospere mean?
18. Which layer of the Earth is made of solid rock that flows very slowly?
19. Which is thinner, oceanic crust of continental crust?
20. What does the word mesosphere mean?
21.What layer is divided into tectonic plates?
22. Which of the major tectonic plates is the smallest?
23.Ridge push, slab pull, and convection are all driven by heat and what force?

24. The North American plate consists of what type of crust?

25. What is it called when two tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally?
26. What is the theory of continental drift?
27. Sea- floor spreading occurs at which type of plate boundary?
28. How do scientists know about the structure of the Earths interior?
29. List three puzzling occurrences that the theory of continental drift helped to explain, and describe how it
explained them.
30. Explain why Wegners theory of continental drift was not accepted at first.
31. Where is oceanic crust the youngest relative to the mid-ocean ridge?
32. How do the three types of convergent boundaries differ from one another?
33. If the Earths crust is growing at mid-ocean ridges, why doesnt the Earth itself grow larger?
34. Why is it necessary to think about the different layers of the Earth in terms of both their composition and
their physical properties?
35. What are three physical properties of the Earths layers?
36. Which layer of the Earth has the most mass?
37. Why do we think of the Earth as a giant jigsaw puzzle?
38. What is the name of the super ocean?
39. Which type of plate boundary produces earthquakes?
40. How do scientist measure the rate of tectonic plate movement?
41. Which type of wave cannot go through liquids?
42. Which type of wave is fastest?
43. What are the three types of convergent boundaries?
44. Explain the process of subduction.
45. Explain the difference between the crust and the lithosphere.