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Happy Lesson. The Earth’s Crust Adapted from: http://www.quia.com/tq/284995.html. Grades 5-7. We live on the earth's crust, which is a thin layer of ___on the Earth's surface. • rock (correct answer) • soil • water.
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Happy Lesson The Earth’s Crust Adapted from: http://www.quia.com/tq/284995.html Grades 5-7
We live on the earth's crust, which is a thin layer of ___on the Earth's surface. • rock (correct answer)• soil• water
2. The solid rocky outer layer of the Earth, consisting of the crust and the outer part of the mantle, ____form(s) a continuous unbroken covering around the Earth. • does• does not (correct answer)
This rocky layer is divided into sections called ___. • plates (correct answer)• continents• oceans
These _____move around or "float" on top of the gooey molten rock that makes up the softer mantle. • plates (correct answer)• pieces• sections
What happens when these plates move?• [A] They can collide. (correct answer)• [B] They can move apart. (correct answer)• [C] They can slide past each other. (correct answer)• [D] They can combine to form one plate
6. As the plates move apart, magma(molten rock) oozes up and forms new crust in the form of a _____along the ocean floor. One such ridge can be found along the middle of the Atlantc Ocean. • ridge (correct answer)• trench
7. Volcanoes and oceanic trenches partly encircling the Pacific Basin form the so-called , a zone of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. • Ring of Fire (correct answer)• Circle of Life
8. When two continents meet head-on, neither is subducted. Instead, the crust tends to buckle and be pushed upward or sideways. Some of the world's tallest mountains are a result of • continental-continental convergence (correct answer)• oceanic-oceanic convergence
9. New crust is formed as the plates pull away from each other. This describes _____. • divergent boundaries (correct answer)• convergent boundaries• transform boundaries (slidiing boundaries)