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Earth’s Layers Study Guide (2)
1. Name the 6 layers of the Earth starting with the outermost layer.
2. Name the two types of crust and what rock each is made of.
3. Describe the difference between the asthenosphere and the lithosphere.
4. Explain the difference between the outer core and the inner core.
5. Describe what happens in reference to density & pressure, as you get deeper inside of the Earth?
6. What is the thickest layer of the Earth?
7. What is the heaviest layer of the Earth?
8. Name the three types of faults and what stress causes each type.
9. How is a fault block mountain formed?
10. How is a folded mountain formed?
11. What causes the Earth’s lithospheric plates to move? Explain.
12. Explain and illustrate sea-floor spreading. Indicate where the newest and oldest crust is located.
13. Illustrate and explain what a subduction zone is. (2 ways)
14. What is a fault?
15. What is a stress (in rock layers)?
16. Define Pangaea.
17. How much do tectonic plates move per year?
18. At what type of boundary does each of the following occur? Where is crust being created? Destroyed? Neither?
19. Complete the charts below:
Layer of
the Earth
Composition
Density
Relative Position
Crust
Mantle
Core
Type of
Boundary
Transform
Divergent
Convergent
(oceanic to
oceanic)
Convergent
(continental to
oceanic)
Description
Diagram
Type of
Movement
Landforms
Created