Volcanoes and Earthquakes

What type of boundary is the San Andreas?

• Convergent
• Transform
• Optimus Prime
• Divergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Which scale measures the intensity of the ground movement?

• Mercalli Scale
• Richter Scale
• Seismogram Scale
• Bernoulli Scale

What is the difference between magma and lava?

• lava is magma but it is on the surface of the Earth
• lava is the chamber that magma flows
• lava is the Earth's crust

What is subduction?

• one plate collides with another
• one plate destroys another
• one plate goes beneath another
• one plate divides another

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A volcano with a steep slope that has quickly cooling lava and explosive eruptions.

• Shield Volcano
• Cinder Cone Volcano
• Composite Volcano

A volcano with gradual slopes formed by slow cooling lava.

• Shield Volcano
• Cinder Cone Volcano
• Composite Volcano

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What types of waves are released from an earthquake?

• Energy Waves
• Sonic Waves
• Seismic Waves

What is the definition of dormant?

• sleeping and could erupt again

• extinct and won't erupt

• active and dangerous

This is the name for the chain of volcanos around the edge of the Pacific Plate.

• March Maddness

• Earthquake Alley

• Ring of Fire

• Circle of Death

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

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