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Earthquakes and Volcanoes

Authored by Elizabeth Abraham

Science

6th Grade

NGSS covered

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Earthquakes and Volcanoes
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the shaking of the Earth’s crust caused by a release of energy?

Earthquake
Epicenter
Fault
Plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

What is a break in the lithosphere along which movement in an earthquake has first occurred?

Earthquake
Epicenter
Fault
Focus

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The earth has a layer of rock around it called the

fault

plates

pressure

crust

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How do earthquakes happen?

When two plates break away from each other after they were stuck

When plates move away from each other

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why do tectonic Plates move?

Convection Currents

Geothermal Energy

Heat from the sun

Earthquakes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Earthquakes mainly occur at which boundaries...

Convergent, Transform

Divergent, Convergent

Transform, Divergent

All of them

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

the most common plate with earthquakes 

transform boundaries 
divergent boundaries 
convergent boundaries 
plate boundaries 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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