NAME: ____________________________
CLASS: _____________________________
FAULT
HOT SPOT
SEISMOGRAM
TRENCH
PLATE
TECTONICS
EPICENTER
VOLCANIC ARC
CRUST
SEIMOGRAPH
ASTHENOSPHERE
SUBDUCTION
FOSSILS
CONTINENTAL
DRIFT
SEAFLOOR
SPREADING
SEISMIC
INNER
CORE
IDENTIFICATION
Identify the following by choosing your answer from the box above.
1. The weak layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere
floats.
Layer of the Earth accountable for the Earth’s magnetic
field
3. The speed, reflection, and refraction properties of this kind
of waves are used to study the structure and composition
of the Earth’s interior.
4. Alfred Wegener based his theory on evidence from
____________ embedded in rocks and rock formations.
5. The age of rocks and the magnetic stripes in the ocean
floor supports this theory.
6. A depression in the seafloor produced by subduction
process.
7. An event in which a slab of rock thrusts into the mantle
8. A device used to record earthquake waves.
9. A break in a rock along which movement has occurred.
10. A concentration of heat in the mantle capable of creating
magma.
2.
FAULT
HOT SPOT
SEISMOGRAM
TRENCH
PLATE
TECTONICS
EPICENTER
VOLCANIC ARC
CRUST
SEIMOGRAPH
ASTHENOSPHERE
SUBDUCTION
FOSSILS
CONTINENTAL
DRIFT
SEAFLOOR
SPREADING
SEISMIC
INNER
CORE
IDENTIFICATION
Identify the following by choosing your answer from the box above.
1. The weak layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere
floats.
Layer of the Earth accountable for the Earth’s magnetic
field
3. The speed, reflection, and refraction properties of this kind
of waves are used to study the structure and composition
of the Earth’s interior.
4. Alfred Wegener based his theory on evidence from
____________ embedded in rocks and rock formations.
5. The age of rocks and the magnetic stripes in the ocean
floor supports this theory.
6. A depression in the seafloor produced by subduction
process.
7. An event in which a slab of rock thrusts into the mantle
8. A device used to record earthquake waves.
9. A break in a rock along which movement has occurred.
10. A concentration of heat in the mantle capable of creating
magma.
2.