Science Quiz 1

What are the three parts of the mantle?

What form is the upper mantle in?

_____ is a plate boundary that has subduction, is destructive, includes trenches and mountains, no earthquakes but has volcanoes.

What is conduction?

_____ is a plate boundary that is motion spreading, effective construction, topography rigdes and rifts, has volcanic activity and no earthquakes.

What is radiation?

What is convection?

Who created the theory of Continental Drift?

What is Pangaea?

_____ recycles/destroys old crust. It is an oceanic plate that sinks beneath another plate in a _____ zone. An ocean trench is formed.

What are the Earth's layers?

_____ is lateral sliding conservative lithosphere, neither created or destroyed no major affect and no volcanoes, yes earthquakes.

An _____ is a steep depression in the deepest part of the ocean where old ocean crust from a tectonic plate is pushed beneath another plate raising mountains causing earthquakes and forming volcanoes on the sea floor and on land.

An _____ is a type of crust found underwater that is thinner and higher in density than continental crust and made of mostly basalt.

What process creates new crust, moves older rock outward from both sides, an forms an ocean ridge?

True or False: The Theory of Plate Tectonics proves earth's plates are in slow, constant motion.

_____ makes up the upper mantle and the crust.

What are the two types of crust that form the crust?