Week 6 Quiz
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1. What are the three chemical layers of the earth?
2. What are the five physical layers of the Earth?
3. What is Isostatic adjustment?
4. What causes lithospheric plates to “sink” into the mantle?
5. What causes lithospheric plates to “rise” or isostatically rebound?
6. Which direction do the three plate boundaries go?
7. What plate boundaries produce Earthquakes?
8. What plate boundaries produce volcanoes?
9. What plate boundaries produce the largest earthquakes and the most explosive
volcanoes?
10. What type of plate boundaries can produce mountains?
11. What is a continental arc? Where does one occur?
12. What is an island arc? Where does one occur?
13. What type of plate boundary do we live near?