Earthquake and Volcano Review

Where are volcanoes most likely to form?

• In the middle of continents
• Along plate boundaries
• In mountains
• away from earthquakes

What do we call the energy produced by an earthquake?

• transform waves
• gap waves
• earthquake waves
• seismic waves

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What happens when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate?

• subduction
• rifts form
• earthquakes
• new crust is created

When a volcano is no longer active and unlikely to erupt again is called ____________________

• extinct

• fault

• tension

• dormat

A break in Earth’s crust along which rocks move is called ___________

• stress

• compression

• dormat

• fault

An area where magma from deep within the mantle melts through is called a ____________________

• fault

• dormat

• hot spot

• stress

A giant wave usually caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor is called __________________

• earthquake

• volcano

• tsunami

• fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

There are 3 types of faults:

• normal, reverse, & tension

• normal, reverse, & compression

• normal, reverse, & strike-slip

• normal, reverse, shearing

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

____________________ are vibrations that travel through Earth carrying energy released by various processes.

• seismic waves

• tension waves

• stress waves

• compression waves

Earth’s surface directly above the earthquake’s focus called ________________

• seismic waves

• fault

• epicenter

• seismic center