Earthquakes and plate tectonics

When magma reaches the surface, what is it called?

• lava
• explosive
• rocks

What is the shaking and trembling that results from movement of rock beneath Earth's surface?

• Volcanoes
• Earthquakes
• Plate tectonics

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What is the crust that makes up the ocean floor called?

• oceanic crust
• crust
• continental crust

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

New seafloor is formed through the process of what?

• seafloor spreading
• continental drift
• divergent boundaries

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What are underwater mountain ranges called?

• boundaries
• mid-ocean ridges
• rift valleys

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Features formed at divergent boundaries are called?

• mountains
• earthquakes
• rift valleys

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is a weak spot in the crust where molten material, or magma, comes to the surface?

• volcano
• lava
• earthquakes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Two plates move toward each other at what?

• convergent boundary
• transform boundary
• divergent boundary

The idea that Earth's crust is made up of separate plates that float on the upper mantle is the theory of what?

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• Pangea

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This instrument records the ground movements caused by seismic waves as they move through the Earth.

• focus

• epicenter

• surface waves

• seismometer

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2