MIDTERM TEST - Earth Systems Science with 100% Correct Answers

MIDTERM TEST - Earth Systems Science with 100% Correct Answers What are the layers of the Earth? - Correct Answer️️ -Crust, Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core What are three plate boundaries? Explain/Give Example - Correct Answer️️ -Divergent - Push Away/Mid-Atlantic Ridge Convergent - Pull Together/Himalayan Mountains Transform - Slide Past/San Andreas Fault Who created the continental drift theory? - Correct Answer️️ -Alfred Wegener in 1915 How long ago was Pangea present? - Correct Answer️️ -225 Million Years ago What animal fossil was used to support continental drift? - Correct Answer️️ - Mesosaurus What plant fossil was used to support continental drift? - Correct Answer️️ - Glosstoperis What 2 rocks were used to support continental drift? - Correct Answer️️ -Coal and Tillite What is the theory of plate tectonics? - Correct Answer️️ -Continents are on lithospheric plates, and these plates are on asthenospheric plates that drag them along. Ocean Basins and continents are on tectonic plates. What causes plates to move? - Correct Answer️️ -Mantle Convection Currents What is the driving force of all plate movement? - Correct Answer️️ -Mantle Convection Currents At what rate does sea floor spreading occur? - Correct Answer️️ -1-12 cm a year At what rate do the plates move? - Correct Answer️️ -1-6 cm a year What research vessel discovered the magnetic field reversals at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge? - Correct Answer️️ -Glomar Challenger What are the 3 types of Convergent Boundaries? - Correct Answer️️ - Oceanic/Continental Oceanic/Oceanic Continental/Continental What is formed at an oceanic/continental convergent boundary? - Correct Answer️️ -A subduction zone What % of the world's volcanoes are in the ring of fire? - Correct An