Earthquakes Quiz

What is an epicenter? 

• Where an earthquake started
• The surface right above where an earthquake started 

What is a convergent boundary?

• When two plates move away from each other.
• When two plates move toward each other.

What is a fault?

• A crack in a plate.
• Where two plates move toward each other.

Most earthquakes happen along the _________________. 

• coast
• faults
• desert
• directions

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Earthquakes under the water can cause _________________________________.

• tornadoes
• tsunamis
• lightening
• hailstorms

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Many earthquakes happen along the borders of...

• Countries
• Tetonic Plates
• Climate Zones
• None of the above.

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This earthquake is......?

• Convergent
• Transform
• Divergent
• Rift Zone

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The huge pieces of the earth's crust are called ____________________________. 

• crust
• plates
• directions
• seismos

What occurs when two plates move, bump or slide past each other?

• An Earthquake
• Nothing
• Movement

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What creates the volcanoes in subduction zones?

• A gap between the tectonic plates allows magma to rise to the surface.

• Materials on the oceanic plate (such as plants+seawater) melt and burn and rise to the surface of the crust.

• The continental plate is melting.

• None of the above.