Week 5 Quiz
Name___________________
Period__________________
Date____________________
1. What is convection? Give an example.
2. When heated most materials become____________ (less or more) dense while most materials that cool
become ___________ (less or more) dense. More dense materials tend to__________ (sink or float)
while less dense materials tend to _______________ (sink or float).
3. What is sea floor spreading?
4. Where does sea floor spreading occur?
5. Where is heat flow the greatest/least?
6. Where is the crust the thickest/thinnest?
7. What are two types of waves released by an earthquake?
8. What are the three chemical layers of the earth?
9. What are the five physical layers of the earth?
10. How do we know where the plate boundaries are? (Name two plates)
11. Draw the three types of plate boundaries with proper labels.
12. The San Andreas Fault occurs where the _____________ plate meets the ____________ plate. Los
Angeles is on the ______________plate. The San Andreas Fault is an example of a
_________________ plate boundary.
13. Los Angeles and Baja California are moving __________________ (north, south, east or west).