Lesson 1

Question 1

The flowing of the upper __________ causes the Earth’s plates to move.

Answer 1

mantle

Question 2

The Earth’s crust is thickest under the __________________________.

Answer 2

continental plates

Question 3

The Earth’s crust is thinnest under the __________________.

Answer 3

ocean plates

Question 4

What landforms are shaped by water?

Answer 4

valleys and canyons

Question 5

What landforms are shaped by wind?

Answer 5

deserts and beaches

Question 6

What is the flattest kind of landform without any hills or mountains?

Answer 6

plains

Question 7

The tallest and most visible landforms are _______________.

Answer 7

mountains

Question 8

Streams and rivers can cut small _____________ or gullies where they flow.

Answer 8

channels

Question 9

Gust of wind can pile sand into large mounds called sand ________.

Answer 9

dunes

Question 10

__________________ measures vibrations in the Earth.

Answer 10

Seismograph

Question 11

What landform are formed when a river meets the ocean?

Answer 11

delta

Question 12

The _________ is the top layer of the Earth.

Answer 12

crust

Question 13

A large land mass surrounded by oceans or other land is called a _____________.

Answer 13

island

Question 14

Valleys and canyons are examples of landforms shaped by _________.

Answer 14

water

Question 15

The gentle sloping edge of a continent that connects the shore to the sea is called the ____________________.

Answer 15

continental slope

Question 16

What Earth layer has a magnetic field?

Answer 16

outer core

Question 17

What Earth layer is made of solid metal?

Answer 17

inner core

Question 18

What type of boundary is an area where two tectonic plates are moving apart?

Answer 18

divergent

Question 19

What is solid rock caused to liquefy by extreme heat and pressure?

Answer 19

mantle

Question 20

What type of boundary is an area where two tectonic plates are colliding?

Answer 20

convergent

Question 21

The continents today were once joined in one huge continent called ____________.

Answer 21

Pangaea

Question 22

The continents drift only a few __________ a year.

Answer 22

inches

Question 23

Name the for Earth layers.

Answer 23

Inner core, Outer core, Mantle, Crust

Question 24

What Earth layer is solid rock?

Answer 24

Mantle

Question 25

What Earth layer creates the Earth’s magnetic field?

Answer 25

Outer core

Question 26

What two metals make up the inner core?

Answer 26

iron, nickel

Question 27

Name the super content that existed millions of years ago before the contents drifted apart.

Answer 27

Pangaea

Question 28

Name the region that is made up of the Earth’s crust and the solid part of the mantle above asthenosphere.

Answer 28

the lithosphere

Question 29

What force pulls everything towards the center of the Earth?

Answer 29

gravity