8th Science U7L2
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| The solid, outer layer of Earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle. | lithosphere
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| The soft layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates move. | asthenosphere
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| A layer of Earth’s surface, lying just below the crust and above the inner core. | mantle
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| A block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and the rigid, outermost part of the mantle. | tectonic plate
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| The bending, tilting, and breaking of Earth’s crust; the change in the shape of rock in response to stress. | deformation
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| The boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding. | convergent boundary
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| The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other. | divergent boundary
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| The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally. | transform boundary
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| the type of stress that occurs when an object is squeezed as when two tectonic plates collide. | compression
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| the amount of force per unit area that is put on a given material. | stress
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| The surface along which rocks break and slide past each other. | fault
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| The name of the scientist credited for developing the Theory of Continental Drift | Alfred Wegener
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| The theory that the today's continents were once part of a single landmass. | Theory of Continental Drift
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| Theory that developed from the Continental Drift Theory that the Earth's surface is made up of giant moving slabs. | Theory of Plate Tectonics
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| The process where new sea floor is formed. | seafloor spreading
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| A change in the Earth's magnetic poles that occur roughly every 25,000 years. | magnetic reversal
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| The process where one tectonic plate is "pulled" under another plate. | subduction
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