Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Plate Tectonics

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

• Volcanoes
• Earthquakes
• Plate tectonics

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The movement of tectonics plates at a fault is a cause of what?

• convergent boundaries
• rift valleys
• Earthquakes

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Scientists think that the movement of Earth's tectonic plates are caused by convection currents, that are located in the _________?

• outer core
• inner core
• mantle

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What are underwater mountain ranges called?

• boundaries
• mid-ocean ridges
• rift valleys

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Features formed at divergent boundaries are called?

• mountains
• earthquakes
• rift valleys

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The place where old crust is pushed down into a trench is called what?

• subduction
• convection current
• deep-ocean trench

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Two plates move toward each other at what?

• convergent boundary
• transform boundary
• divergent boundary

What is the record of an earthquake's seismic waves produced by a seismograph?

• Richter
• magnitude
• seismogram

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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Look at the image. The South American and Nasca plate are moving together. Which type of boundary is this? 

• divergent
• convergent
• transform fault

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