Earthquakes

What do you call the earth's crust that is broken into large pieces?

• zones

• boundaries

• fault

• Plates

What 3 things do plates do to each other?

• Bump into

• Move forward

• Slide past

• Pull apart

The slowly moving plates cause what on the rocks?

• Stress

• Movement

• Friction

• Tension

Where is the Ring of Fire located (Place in the ocean where many earthquakes and volcanoes occur)?

• Atlantic Ocean

• Indian Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

• Arctic Ocean

Subduction Zones and Transform Boundaries result in movement along fault lines causing ____________ and _____________

• Compression and Tension

• Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions

• Shearing

• Convection

Rocks move together

• Compression

• Tension

• Shearing

Rocks move away from each other

• Shearing

• Compression

• Tension

Rocks slide past each other

• Tension

• Shearing

• Compression

A ____________ or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock.

• Seismic

• Direction

• Fault

• Fracture

Since fracture blocks move between two blocks of rock, so these blocks move ___________ to each other.

• Opposite

• Relative

• Forward

• Backwards