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Answer the following questions:
1. The rock most commonly found on oceanic crust is
2. The rock most commonly found on continental crust is
3. Which layer of the earth is partially made of magma?
4. Which physical layer of the earth is made up of tectonic plates?
5. Another name for crust is
6. What appears to cause the Earth’s plates to move (two words)?
7. The ancient continent “super continent” that had all the continents connected was called what?
8. The major problem with Alfred Wegener’s Theory of continental drift was
9. The type of fault that has a hanging wall moving down is called a
10. Oceanic crust sinks to the bottom and continental crust does not because oceanic is more
11. The type of fault that has a hanging wall moving up is called a
12. The layer of the earth made of liquid iron is
13.The layer of the earth made of solid iron is
14. Which physical layer of the Earth do the tectonic plates float on?
15. The San Andreas fault is what type of fault?
16. Alfred Wegener created which theory?
17. What creates mid-ocean ridges (three words)?
18. Which boundary has mountains, strong earthquakes, and trenches?
19. Which boundary has weak to moderate earthquakes?
20. Which boundary has mid-ocean ridges?
Define all words below and on back:
1. crust –
2. mantle –
3. outer core –
4. inner core –
5. lithosphere –
6. asthenosphere –
7. mesosphere –
8. tectonic plates –
9. Continental Drift –
10. sea-floor spreading –
11. Plate Tectonics –
12. convection current –
13. subduction zone –
14. trench –
15. convergent boundaries –
16. divergent boundaries –
17. transform boundaries –
18. stress –
19. compression –
20. tension –
21. fold –
22. syncline –
23. anticline –
24. monocline –
25. fault –
26. normal fault –
27. reverse fault –
28. strike-slip fault –