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October 2022 1 1 Report
Circle the letter of the correct answer:
1. What makes up the lithosphere?
A. Core
B. Crust
C. Crust and upper mantle
D. Mantle

2. Which type of seismic waves travel through the interior of the earth?
A. Body waves
B. Surface waves
C. Continental
D.Ocean waves

3. What is the basis of scientists in dividing the Earth's lithosphere into plates?
A. Location of active volcanoes
B. Location of active volcanoes and earthquake epicenters
C. Location of active volcanoes, earthquake epicenters, and mountain ranges
D. Location of active volcanoes, earthquake epicenters, mountain ranges, and rivers

4. Which type of crust is less dense?
A. Continental
B. Oceanic
C. They are the same
D. It depends

5. How many recording stations are needed in triangulation method?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

6. Plates A and B are moving apart at 1.5cm each year. What type of plate boundary do these plates demonstrate? A. Divergent Boundary
C. Transform Fault Boundary
B. Convergent Boundary
D. None of these

7. The most visible and fascinating evidence that continents were once a single land mass that their borders seem to fit together.
A. Continental Jigsaw Puzzle/Tectonic Fit
C. Stratigraphic Correlation
B. Topographic Evidences
D. Paleontological Evidences

8. What is the driving force behind plate tectonics?
A. Subduction
B. Convergence
C. Convection current
D. Wegener effect

9. Plates A and B are moving away at 1.5cm each year. What type of plate boundary do these plates demonstrate? A. Divergent Boundary
C. Transform Fault Boundary
B. Convergent Boundary
D. None of these

10. What discovery about the ocean floor is associated with the seafloor spreading?
A. Mountains are denser than the mantle B. The rotational poles of the Earth have migrated
C. The crust of the continents is denser than the crust in the ocean.
D. The crust of the ocean is very young relative to the age of the crust of the continents​

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