Vocabulary Test

Write the answer on the line.

 

1. The _______________contains hot, partially melted rock.

asthenosphere                  lithosphere             mountain

2. Earthquakes occur along _______________.

convection currents          volcanoes               folded mountains   

3. Pike’s Peak in Colorado is a _______________.

fault-block mountain        dome mountain        folded mountain

4. Scientists think that _______________ in the mantle cause Earth’s tectonic plates to move.

thunderstorms                  hurricanes              convection currents

5. Layers of rock may be destroyed along _______________.

convergent boundaries      the asthenosphere            the atmosphere

6. Most _______________ are found on the floor of the ocean.

dome mountains                divergent boundaries        trans-form fault boundaries

7. Mountains in the Great Rift Valley of Africa are _______________.

eroding                            fault-block mountains       plate tectonics

8. The Alps and the Himalayas are _______________.

folded mountains              dome mountains                fault-block mountains

9. Scientists use ____________________ to explain how Earth’s continents drift.

radar                              the theory of plate tectonics      hypotheses

10. Movement occurring at a ____________________ may cause cracks to form in Earth’s rocks.

convection current           volcano                            transform-fault bondary

11. The pie in the oven was heated by _______________.

convection                       the sun                            water power

12. Lava flowed out of the _______________.

earthquake                      dome mountain                  volcano

13. The _______________ is the layer of the Earth that is 62 miles thick.

lithosphere                      asthenosphere                  crust

 

 

© Ellen Gabor, 2004