Earth's Surface Science Assessment

Where are most of Earth's volcanoe's found?

• China

• Ring of Fire

• Hollywood

• Texas

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Volcanoes only exist on land

• True

• False

What is a volcano?

• A large storm with very high speed winds.

• A violent shaking of the Earth that occurs when two tectonic plates bump into each other.

• An opening in the Earth's crust where magma erupts to the surface.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What do we call molten hot liquid rock while it is still below the Earth's surface?

• Magma

• Igneous

• Cinder

• Lava

Volcanoes erupt because of...

• The pressure in the earth forcing the hot rock through a crack.

• An earthquake happening nearby.

• The earth getting overheated.

• None of the above.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Molten rock on the surface of the earth is called...

• magma.
• lava.
• obsidian.
• sediment.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

volcano eruptions are dangerous because

• the lava is bad for plants
• heat and gas
• bad smell and smoke
• nothing

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Volcanos can destroy homes and towns.

• true
• false

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What do you call a mountain that has a vent at the top?

• an island

• a glacier

• a volcano

The shaking and sliding of the Earth's surface is _______

• a volcano.

• a vent.

• an earthquake.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2