Name:
1. What are the 4 layers of the
Earth?
Date:
2.a. Label the lithosphere.
Class Period:
3.a. Label the asthenosphere.
2.b. What state of matter is the
lithosphere?______________________
3.b. What state of matter is the
asthenosphere?__________________
4. What are the two types of
crust?
5. What is the most dense layer of the
Earth?
1.__________________________
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6. What state of matter are the layers of
the Earth?
1. Crust-__________________________
2. Mantle-________________________
3. Outer core-_____________________
4. Inner core-______________________
1.__________________________
2.__________________________
3.__________________________
4.__________________________
2.__________________________
7. Label the 3 plate boundaries
___________________________
_____________________________
8. What are the 2 types of
convergent plate boundaries?
Draw a picture of both.
1.__________________________
____________________________
9. What are the 2 types of divergent
plate boundaries? Draw a picture of
both.
1.______________________________
________________________________
_____________________________
10. What is another name for a
transform boundary?
_______________________________
10.a. In what state is the most famous
transform boundary?
_______________________________
10.b. What’s its name?
2.__________________________ 2.______________________________
____________________________ ________________________________
_______________________________
11. Label the layers of the Earth.
12. Which plate boundary could make
a trench?
a. convergent boundary
b. divergent boundary
c. transform boundary
15. Which plate boundary can make a
mid ocean ridge?
a. convergent boundary
b. divergent boundary
c. transform boundary
18. What type of plate boundary is
this?
13. Which plate boundary can make a
rift valley?
a. convergent boundary
b. divergent boundary
c. transform boundary
16. Which plate boundary could make
a mountain?
a. convergent boundary
b. divergent boundary
c. transform boundary
19. What type of plate boundary is
this?
14. Where can an earthquake
happen?
a. convergent boundary
b. divergent boundary
c. transform boundary
17. Which plate boundary could make
a subduction zone?
a. convergent boundary
b. divergent boundary
c. transform boundary
20. Who discovered the idea of
continental drift?
_______________________________
a. continental crust to continental
crust divergent plate boundary
b. oceanic crust to continental crust
convergent plate boundary
c. continental crust to continental
crust convergent plate boundary
21. What are the three pieces of
evidence that continental drift
occurred?
1._____________________________
2._____________________________
3._____________________________
a. continental crust to continental
crust divergent plate boundary
b. continental crust to continental
crust convergent plate boundary
c. oceanic crust to oceanic crust
divergent plate boundary
22. At which plate boundary is crust
gained?
a. convergent boundary
b. divergent boundary
c. transform boundary
23. At which plate boundary is crust
lost?
a. convergent boundary
b. divergent boundary
c. transform boundary
24. Why does the oceanic crust
subduct under the continental crust at
a convergent plate boundary?
25. Why is a mountain formed at a
continental crust to continental crust
convergent boundary?
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
26. Where do convection currents
occur?
a. inner core
b. outer core
c. crust
d. asthenosphere
27. Use arrows and words to show the relationship between density and temperature in a convection current.
Temperature increases
Temperature decreases
Density _____________________
Density _____________________