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6. The Layer between the core and the crust is the...

  • Mantle
  • Asthenosphere
  • Lithosphere
  • Biosphere
  • Hydrosphere

7. What fundamental process is thought to be responsible for plate motion?

  • Spreading Ridges
  • Hot spot activity
  • Convection Cells
  • Subduction
  • Density Differences

8. Which of the following statements about a scientific theory is not true?

  • It has a large body of supporting evidence
  • It is testable
  • None of these
  • It is a conjecture or guess
  • It's an explaination for some natural phenomenon

9. The man who proposed the hypothesis of continental drift was...

  • Wegener
  • Lovelock
  • Hutton
  • Lyell
  • Hess

10. Mid-oceanic Ridges are examples of what type of boundary?

  • Subduction
  • Asnwers (b) and (d)
  • Transform
  • Divergent
  • Convergent

11. A Plate is composed of the...

  • Continental and Oceanic crust
  • Core and Lower Mantle
  • Upper Mantle and Crust
  • Lower Mantle and Asthenosphere
  • Astehnosphere and Upper Mantle

12. The Study of Earth materials is....

  • Historical Geology
  • Physical Geology
  • Stratigraphy
  • Palaeontology
  • Environmental Geology

13. Which rock group forms from the cooling of a magma?

  • Igneous
  • None of These
  • Sedimentary
  • Metamorphic
  • All of These

14. Which of the following is not a major rock group?

  • Sedimentary
  • None of These
  • Metamorphic
  • Meteorites
  • Igneous

15. The Asthenosphere...

  • Is the zone over which plates move
  • All of the above
  • Lies beneath the lithosphere
  • Is composed primarily of peridotite
  • Behaves Plastically and flows slowly

16. The Rock Cycle implies that...

  • Igneous Rocks only for beneath the Earth's surface
  • Any rock type can be derived from any other rock types
  • Metamorphic rocks are derived from magma
  • Sedimentary rocks only form from the weathering of igneous rocks
  • All of These

17. Krakatoa is in....

  • Indonesia
  • Australia
  • The United States
  • Italy
  • Japan