Plate Tectonics Practice Quiz

Approximately 70% of the world's composite volcanoes are located around the Pacific Ocean in a region called the ____________. 

• Ring of Fire
• Volcano Ring
• Nucleus of Volcanoes
• Center of Fire

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is a smaller earthquake that follows a larger earthquake?

• Aftershock
• Liquefaction
• Seismic Gap
• Tsunami

Most volcanoes occur 

• oceanic/continental convergent
• oceanic/oceanic convergent
• transform boundary
• oceanic/continental divergent 

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What type of volcano is shown on the model above? 

• Shield Volcano
• Composite Volcano
• Cinder Cone Volcano

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What type of volcano is shown on the model above? 

• Cinder Cone Volcano
• Composite Volcano
• Shield Volcano

Where is the point on the Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake?

• Epicenter
• Fault
• Hypocenter
• Tremor

Which type of wave is the first to arrive after an earthquake occurs?

• P Wave
• Rayleigh Wave
• S Wave
• Shear Wave

Which type of wave squeezes and stretches rock materials as they pass through the Earth?

• Body Waves

• P Waves

• S Waves

• Surface Waves

Which type of wave causes particles of rock material to move at right angles to the direction in which the waves are traveling?

• Body Waves

• P Waves

• S Waves

• Surface Waves

Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

• Energy from the Sun
• Magnetic Pole Reversal
• Convection currents in the mantle
• Faults in Mountain Ranges

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3