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CP EnvSci Geosphere Review
Name _______KEY____________ Period _____
Sipe/Poposki
Date ____________________
Station 1- Layers of the Earth
1. Identify the following layers of the Earth that are indicated on the diagram below.
a. __Lithosphere_____________
b. __Asthenosphere__________
c. __Mesosphere (lower mantle)
d. __Outer Core_____________
e.
Inner Core_____________
Answer the following questions below.
2. Which layer is the thinnest? Thickest? Crust___________ /_____Mantle___________
3. Which layer is responsible for the movement of the tectonic plates? Asthenosphere
4. Which layer consists of the crust and upper mantle? Lithosphere
5. Which layer is composed of Nickel and Iron and is a solid? Inner Core
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For #6-13 Label the following layers of the Earth on the diagram below.
#6-8 Label the 3 compositional layers
#9-13 Label the 5 physicallayers
CP EnvSci Geosphere Review
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Sipe/Poposki
Date ____________________
Station 2- Plate Tectonics, Boundaries, and Movement
1. What is the diagram to the right showing? Explain.
A theory that describes a movement of the tectonic
plates (Earth’s litosphere). The Earth is composed of
oceanic plates (thinner but denser) and continental
plates.(thicker but less denser) plates.
2. What was the name of this configuration of the early
Earth? Pangea
3. Label the diagrams below as diverging, converging, or
transform boundaries.
a. Converging
b. transform
4. The area where 2 plates meet is called a boundary.
c. diverging
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5. Match the following terms in column II with the descriptions and examples in column I.
Terms in column II may be used once, more than once, or not at all.
Column I
Column II
_b____ Plates spread apart
_c____Plates slide past each other
a. converging
_a____Plates collide
b. diverging
__c___ San Andreas Fault
c. transform
__a___Himalayan Mountains
__b___ Mid Ocean Ridges
6. A fault______ is a break in the Earth’s crust along which blocks of the crust slide relative to
one another. When rocks that are under stress suddenly break along a fault, a series of
ground vibrations is set off called an ___Earthquake______ .
7. A ___volcano______ is a mountain built from magma (melted rock) that rises from the
Earth’s interior to its surface. Their often located along __plate boundaries_____ and can
occur on land or under sea, where they can eventually form islands.
CP EnvSci Geosphere Review
Name ________KEY________________ Period _____
Sipe/Poposki
Date ____________________
Station 3- Structure and Composition of the Earth
Part I. Match the following terms in column II with the descriptions and examples in column I.
Terms in column II may be used once, more than once, or not at all.
Column I
_b____ 1.Solid because under enormous pressure
_d____ 2.Layer of the mantle just beneath the lithosphere
Column II
a. Lithosphere
b. Inner Core
and above mesosphere
__b___ 3.Made of liquid nickel and iron
__a___ 4.Consists of crust and uppermost mantle
__c___ 5.Lower part of the mantle, between asthenosphere
c. Mesosphere
d. Asthenosphere
e. Outer Core
and outer core
__a___ 6.Earth’s outer layer
__c___7.Aka “middle sphere”
__d___ 8.Plastic, solid layer of mantle made of rock that flows very slowly,
allowing tectonic plates to move on top of it
__b___ 9. Layer that is the MOST dense
__a___ 10. Layer that is under the LEAST pressure
__b___ 11. Layer that is the HOTTEST
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12. Scientists divide Earth into three layers, based on their composition or chemical make-up.
These layers are composed of progressively denser materials toward the center of the Earth.
These are known as ____compositional layers______________________.
13. What are the three layers referred to in #12?
a. _Crust_____________
b. _Mantle____________
c. __Core______________
14. If we consider the physical properties of each layer, instead of their chemistry, the Earth is
divided into 5 layers, called the _physical layers____________________.
15. Compare and contrast the inner and outer core.
The outer core is liquid. The inner core is solid. They both consist Nickel and Iron. The outer
core is less dense than the inner core because of the pressure difference.
CP EnvSci Geosphere Review
Name _________KEY______________ Period _____
Sipe/Poposki
Date ____________________
Station 4- Plates & Boundaries
1. The picture to the right represents which
type of convergent boundary?
__oceanic-continental convergence.
2. In the diagram to the upper right, which plate is
the densest? _oceanic plate____________________
3. What happens to the dense plate when the 2 plates come together?
The more dense plate (oceanic plate) goes under the continental plate (less danse plate).
This process is called subduction.
4. What happens to the LESS dense plate when the two plates come together?
The less dense plate (the continental plate) will stay in its place and be above the more
dense one .
5. How do tectonic plates move? The asthenosphere moves due to the convection currents
which causes the lithosphere (located on top of the asthenosphere) to move.
6. What does the image to the left represent
in which there is a stationary pool of magma?
hot spots formation
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7. Which island is the OLDEST?
__Savaii____________________________________
8. Complete the table below.
Boundary type
Description
Characteristic
features
c-c mountains
C=continental crust
O=oceanic crust
Plates move toward
eachother
o-c volcano/trench
o-o volcano/trench
Convergent
Examples of where
this is occurring on
Earth today
Himalayan
Mountains
Andes Mountains
Indonesian Islands
Plates move away
from each other.
Ridge/ volcano
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Plates slide pass
each other
Fault/ earthquake
San Andreas Fault
Divergent
Transform
CP EnvSci Geosphere Review
Name _________KEY______________ Period _____
Sipe/Poposki
Date ____________________
Station 5- Mixed Vocabulary Terms
Match the following terms in column II with the descriptions and examples in column I. Terms
in column II may be used once, more than once, or not at all.
Column I
__p___1.Process that causes the tectonic plates to move
__d__2.Layer of the Earth consisting nickel and iron and
exists in of two states of matter- solid and liquid
__c___3. Caused the formation of the Hawaiian Island
_o____4. Convergent, divergent, transform
_k____5.Layer responsible for tectonic plate movement
_g____6. Caused primarily from transform boundaries
__i___7. Term given to the process when one plate is pushed
under another
_c___8. Stationary pools of magma (not at plate boundaries)
_h____9. Series of waves caused by convergent or divergent
boundaries
__f___10. Caused by plate boundaries that are subducting or
Column II
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
k.
l.
Fault
Atmosphere
Hot spot
Core
geosphere
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Tsunamis
Subduction
hydrosphere
Mantle
Tectonic plates
m.
n.
o.
p.
Crust
Biosphere
Plate boundaries
Convection currents
diverging
11. Look at the image below. Where is the hot spot located, nearer to X or Y? __Y_______
CP EnvSci Geosphere Review
Name ________KEY_________________ Period _____
Sipe/Poposki
Date ____________________
Station 6-Interacting Spheres
1. What are the four spheres of the Earth?
a. Geosphere__________
b. Hydrosphere__________
c. Atmosphere___________
d. Biosphere_____________
2. Give one example of 2 interacting spheres.
Tree growing: the tree uses the water from the atmosphere and it uses the nutrients
from the geosphere and the support from the geosphere.
3. Name two ways humans affect the geosphere.
Pollution (factories); contamination with radioactive materials.
_____ 4.The part of Earth that contains the air we breathe is called the
a. hydrosphere
c. geosphere
b. atmosphere
d. biosphere
_____ 5.The part of Earth that contains all water resources is called the
a. hydrosphere
c. geosphere
b. atmosphere
d. biosphere