Fast Land Changes

What damage could a landslide cause?

• It could shake the earth, breaking buildings

• It could cover the land with mud and rock

• It could cause an explosion of rock and material

• It could smash everything around it

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How is a volcano caused?

• One plate of the earth sliding under another

• Two plates of the earth rubbing together

• Two plates pushing together to get the magma out

• One plate exploding in the middle

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How is an earthquake caused?

• One plate of the earth sliding under another

• Two plates of the earth rubbing together

• Two plates pushing together to get the magma out

• One plate exploding in the middle

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Volcanoes change the land by...

• breaking the land

• taking away the land

• adding more land

• flooding the land

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Why are fast land changes so dangerous?

• because they are hard to predict

• because they are hard to get away from

• because they happen quickly

• all of the above

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What are the pieces of crust that the earth's surface is made of called ?

• tentacle plates

• tectonic plates

• mantle plates

• shaking plates

When two plates of the earth's crust meet, what could happen?

• a waterfall

• a thunderstorm

• an earthquake

• a mudslide

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Earthquakes are measured on the Ritcher scale, the higher the magnitude, the __________.

• weaker the earthquake

• stronger the earthquake

• louder it is

• the softer it is

When a volcano explodes ...

• ash, rock, and lava go everywhere quickly

• the lava rolls out slowing from the top

• the magma builds up but then goes back into the earth

• a landslide is caused.

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_________ is melted rock INSIDE the volcano, ____________ is melted rock OUTSIDE of the volcano.

• lava, mantle

• magma, crust

• magma, lava

• lava, magma