Dynamic Planet

What type of volcano do we normally associate with hot spots?

• shield

• cinder cone

• stratovolcano

• composite

The epicenter of an earthquake is

• The point below the surface where rock begins to break and the first motion occurs
• The seismic station closest to the earthquake
• The place where the greatest damage occurs
• The point on the surface directly above the focus

Which travels fastest, always being the first detected by seismic stations?

• P waves
• S waves

An instrument that detects and measures earthquakes is a 

• seismogram
• focus seismic map
• focus
• seismograph 

Many earthquakes happen along the borders of...

• Countries
• Tetonic Plates
• Climate Zones
• None of the above.

The huge pieces of the earth's crust are called ____________________________. 

• crust
• plates
• directions
• seismos

A German scientist Alfred Wegener was the first to hypothesize that ...........

• Continents were once joined
• The sea floor is spreading
• Continents are moving
• The Earth's magnetic pole flips

Where are most divergent boundaries located?

• Along the middle of most ocean floors
• Along the margins of most continents
• Across the middle of many continents
• All the above options are correct

The Himalayan mountains have some of the highest peaks like Mt. Everest, on which type of convergent boundary are they located?

• Oceanic/Continental
• Oceanic/Oceanic
• Continental/Continental
• None of the above

The mechanism that moves continents is based on heat energy moving by

• Radiation in the core
• Conduction in the lithosphere
• Convection in the Asthenosphere
• None of these options is true