Choose the letter of the best answer.

1.What layer is a semisolid and acts like a

plastic?

a. Lithosphere
b. Mantle
c. Asthenosphere

2.The oceanic floor is made of?

a. Granite
b. Basalt
c. Cookies
d. Water

3. The continental floor is made up of?

a. Flowers and grass

b. Basalt
c. Granite
d. Crust
4.The thinnest layer of the Earth is?

a. Mantle
b. Lithosphere
c. Asthenosphere
d. Crust

5.The lithosphere combines what two layers?

a. Asthenosphere & Crust

b. Crust & Upper Mantel
c. Mantel & Asthenosphere

6.The asthenosphere makes up the?

a. Upper portion of the mantel

b. The lower portion of the crust
c. Just the Asthenosphere

7.What happens to pressure as we move from

the crust to the inner core?
a. Pressure Decreases
b. Pressure Increases
c. Nothing
8.What happens to temperature as we move from
the crust to the inner core?
a. Decreases
b. Increases

9.This layer of Earth is solid Iron and Nickel

a. Outer Core
b. Mantle
c. Inner Core
d. Crust

10.What is the name of the layer that contains

the uppermost mantle and crust?

a. Asthenosphere
b. Mesosphere
c. Lithosphere
d. Transosphere

11.This layer of Earth is the thickest part

a. crust
b. outer core
c. mantle
d. inner core
12.What are the two types of crust?

a. continental and oceanic

b. ocean and upper
c. lower and upper
d. pizza and subway

13.Scientists determine what Earth’s interior

looks like by using:

a. Volcanoes
b. Seismic Waves
c. Continental Drift
d. Convection Current

14.Less dense materials rise to the top.

a. True
b. False

15.Oceanic crust is thicker than continental

crust.

a.True
b. False
16.What is the correct order (starting from the
surface) of Earth's Compositional layers?

a. crust, core, mantle

b. mantle, core, crust
c. crust, mantle, core
d. core, crust, mantle

17.Which layer of Earth has

the GREATEST density?

a. crust
b. mantle
c. outer core
d. inner core

18.Heat transfer within a fluid takes place by...

a. convection currents
b. radiation
c. conduction
d. density
19.When the heat source is removed from a fluid,
convection currents in the fluid will

a. speed up.
b. change direction.
c. eventually stop.
d. continue at the same rate forever.

20.Using data from seismic waves, geologists

have learned that Earth's interior is made up of
several

a. continents
b. layers
c. ridges
d. trenches

21. Earth's magnetic field results from

movements in the mantle

a. outer core
b. inner core
c. crust
22. A deep well or mine shaft goes through
which layer or layers of Earth?

a. crust only
b. mantle only
c. crust and mantle
d. mantle and core

23.Which layer of Earth is LIQUID?

a. upper mantle
b. lower mantle
c. outer core
d. inner core

24. Geologists' main evidence about the

structure of Earth's interior comes from

a. temperature measurements in deep mines

b. observations of other planets
c. exploration of caves
d. rock samples and seismic waves
25.Which layer of Earth is made up of tectonic
plates?

a. outer core
b. inner core
c. asthenosphere
d. lithosphere

26.Why have geologists not reached the mantle?

a. It is too hot for humans to go there.

b. It is too smelly for humans to go there.
c. It doesn't have Wi-Fi so none of their instruments
work.
d. Scientists have not figured out how to time travel.

27.What does composition mean?

a. An objects density
b. What color something is
c. What something is made of
d. Where something is located
28. Which of the following is NOT an example of
a physical property?

a. Color
b. Rust
c. State of matter
d. Density