Chapter 1 Exam

Mineral in the form of hot liquid rock; found in mantle?

• Earthquake

• Magma

• Volcano

A large section of the earth's crust.

• Tectonic plate

• Magma

• Boundary

The edge of a tectonic plate where it meets other plates.

• Boundary

• Earthquake

A cone-shaped mountain that forms around a vent where magma is forced to the surface.

• Earthquake

• Volcano

• Tsunami

The shaking of rock in the earth's crust.

• Boundary

• Earthquake

The outermost layer of the earth.

• Core

• Mantle

• Crust

The process of forming new oceanic crust.

• Fault

• Seafloor spreading

Push tectonic plates as hot magma rises, cools and sinks again.

• Convection currents

• Faults

• Mountains

Giant landforms created when tectonic plates collide or when is subducted below one another.

• Tsunami

• Mountain

• Tornado

1. Most earthquakes occur along ___________________ and plate boundaries.

• Fault

• Seafloor spreading