Earth and Space

Direction: Encircle the letter of the best answer.

1. What are Earth's layers from the center to the surface?

a. inner core, outer core, mantle, crust
b. inner core, outer core, crust, mantle
c. crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
d. crust, outer core, mantle, inner core
2. Which of the following defines the Earths Lithosphere?
a. a rocky layer within the mantle
b. the rigid, rocky, outermost layer of Earth
c. the outer, liquid portion of the earths core
d. a rocky layer in the mantle capable of flowing
3. Which theory suggests that the Earths crust is made up of plates that interact in various
ways, thus producing earthquakes, mountains, volcanoes, and other geologic features?
a. Plates c. Plate Tectonics
b. Tectonics d. Continental
4. What is the structure of Earths surface in which it changes shape overtime?
a. Plates c. Continental crust
b. Tectonics d. Oceanic crust
5. What can cause tectonic plates to move?
a. slow continental drift
b. radiation from within the crust
c. convection currents in the mantle
d. magnetic forces from the inner core
6. What type of plate boundary where plates slide or grind past each other without diverging
or converging?
a. Convergent Boundaries
b. Divergent Boundaries
c. Transform Boundaries
d. Subduction Zone
7. What theory states that all continents were once one large landmass that broke apart, and
where the pieces moved slowly to their current locations?
a. Plate tectonics
b. Plate Boundaries
c. Oceanic drift theory
d. Continental drift theory
8. Where does the mid ocean ridge occurs?
a. Transform boundary where crust is subducted
b. Convergent boundary where new crust is formed
c. Divergent boundary where subduction takes place
d. Divergent boundary where sea-floor spreading takes place
9. Which of the following are not associated with convergent plate margins?
a. island arcs c. deep-sea trenches
b. rift valleys d. deep focus earthquakes
10. How was the continental drift theory supported?
I. Fossils
II. By paleoglaciation
III. Magnetic Reversal
IV. Plate Boundaries

a. I, II, III b. II,III,IV c. I,II,IV d. I,III,IV

11. How did the Hawaiian Islands form?
a. by a volcano exploding then the lava cooling in the ocean
b. by the Pacific Plate being pulled over a hotspot
c. the drifted life the other continents
d. They were always there
12. Why are mod-ocean ridges higher than the rest of the ocean floor?
a. because of earthquakes
b. because of subduction zones
c. because the plates collide and create an undersea mountain range
d. because the plate being pushed up creating an undersea mountain range
13. What will happen when two continental plates with same density, collide with one
another?
a. folding takes place c. earthquakes takes place
b. collision takes place d. transformation takes place
14. What happens when an oceanic plate converges with a continental plate?
a. The less dense oceanic plate slides past the denser continental plate.
b. The denser oceanic plate slides under the less dense continental plate.
c. The less dense oceanic plate slides under the denser continental plate.
d. The denser oceanic plate slides on top of the less dense continental plate.
15. What kind of movement created the Himalaya Mountains?
a. Two continental plates colliding
b. Two oceanic plates colliding
c. the creation of rift valleys
d. seafloor spreading

For items 15 -16 refer to the diagram below

16. What type of plate boundary is most likely to occur at point A in the diagram?
a. Transform boundaries
b. Divergent boundaries
c. Convergent boundaries
d. Reverse boundaries
17. Which of the following can be explained at point B in the diagram?
a. Plates move apart and volcanoes form.
 b. Plates move past each other sideways.
c. Plates move toward each other and volcanoes form
d. Plates are not moving.
18. Which of these is FALSE about the inner core of the Earth:
a. The inner core is made up of molten materials and accounts for the Earths magnetic
field.
b. The inner core is made up of solid nickel and iron
c. The inner core temperature reaches as low as 5000
d. The inner core is the outermost layer of the Earth
19. If the Rift eruption occurs along spreading ridges, where does the mid-ocean ridge
occurs?
a. Transform boundary where crust is subducted
b. Convergent boundary where new crust is formed
c. Divergent boundary where subduction takes place
d. Divergent boundary where sea-floor spreading takes place
20. Which of the following refers to the product of subducting Philippine Sea Plate beneath
the archipelago?
a. Philippine Trench and East Luzon Trough
b. Philippine Trench and Sulu Trench
c. East Luzon Trough and Sulu Trench
d. East Luzon and Zamboanga Peninsula
21. All of the following are the movement of plates that create the three types of tectonic
boundaries EXCEPT
a. Convergent Boundaries
b. Divergent Boundaries
c. Transform Boundaries
d. Subduction Boundaries
22. Why does the Continental Plate lighter and less dense compared to Oceanic Plate?
a. Because theyre made up of sand
b. Because theyre made up of soil
c. Because theyre made up of light elements
 d. Because theyre made up of metalloids
23. If the Oceanic Plates collides with a Continental Plate, what will happen to the Oceanic
plates?
a. forced Backwards
b. forced Upward
c. forced Downwards
d. forced into it
24. If you are a cartographer, what will give you an idea that the continents were once
joined?
a. Ocean depth
b. Position of the south pole
c. Shape of the continents
d. Size of the Atlantic Ocean
25. If all the inner layers of the Earth are firm solid, what could have happened to Pangaea?
a. It remained as a supercontinent.
b. It would have become as it is today.
c. It would have slowly disappeared in the ocean
d. It would have stretched and covered the whole world.
26. Why does the oceanic crust sink beneath the continental crust at the subduction zone?
a. The oceanic crust has a greater density.
b. The oceanic crust is pulled downward by Earths magnetic field.
c. The oceanic crust is pushed from the ridge
d. The continental crust has a denser composition.

For number 27-30, complete the table below. Choose your answer below

27 -28. a. Transform b. Divergent c. Subduction

29 -30. a. Sliding past each other
b. Moving towards each other
c. Not moving
 A B C
Type of Plate Boundary Relative Motion of the Plates Geologic Features/Events

26._______________ Moving away from each Earthquakes

27. Convergent 29. _______________
Mountains, Volcanoes,
trenches and Earthquakes

28._______________ 30._______________
Rift Valleys, Oceanic Ridges
and Earthquakes