Quiz 9 - Sect. 3.1

Question 1

What do we call the underwater mountain ranges that occur where pieces of the earth’s crust are moving away from each other?

Answer 1

mid-oceanic ridges

Question 2

What do we call the study of the earth and its structures?

Answer 2

geology

Question 3

What do we call the huge pieces of the earth’s crust that “float” like rafts on the upper mantle?

Answer 3

plates

Question 4

What is the boundary between the earth’s crust and mantle called?

Answer 4

Moho or Mohorovicic discontinuity

Question 5

What is the process that causes rocks to gradually break or crumble into smaller pieces, thereby forming new soil?

Answer 5

weathering

Question 6

Be able to label and name each of the earth’s layers

Answer 6

inner core, mantle, crust, outer core