earthquakes, volcanoes, tectonic plates, earth's layers

How do convergent plates move?

• They pull away from each other.

• They slide by each other.

• They move to connect to each other.

• It depends, sometimes they move close to each other, sometimes they move far apart.

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What is directly above the focus?  

• Epicenter
• Fault
• Seismograph Station

What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?

• Core
• Mantle
• Crust

What are the puzzle pieces of the Earth's surface called?

• Tectonic plates
• Puzzles
• Earthquakes

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The place where an earthquake originates inside the Earth's surface is called...

• Epicenter
• Hypocenter (focus)
• Underground
• Crust

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What are the three types of plate boundaries?

• Transform, Convergent, Divergent
• Apart, Together, Slide
• Slide, Pull away, Push together

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What is the instrument used to measure earthquakes?

• Seismograph
• Seisologist
• Scale

What causes earthquakes?

• Millions of people jumping at once

• The earth rotating

• The movement of plate tectonics

• Gravity

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What is the scale used to measure the strengths of earthquakes?

• Fujita scale

• Richter scale

• Damage scale

• NASA scale

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How are earthquakes recorded?

• Seismographs

• Human eyes

• Data charts

• Circle Graphs

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