Social 12 Test

A group of wagons pulled by horses or oxen.

• transcontinental railroad

• wagon train

• fault

An opening in the Earth that gases, ash, and lava may pour out of.

• earthquake

• lava

• fault

• volcano

Melted rock that comes out of a volcano.

• crater

• lava

• fault

Cracking and movement of the earth crust that causes the ground to shake.

• crater

• fault

• earthquake

• volcano

A device that used electricity to send messages.

• pony express

• telegraph

a location on a mountain where it is too cold for trees to grow.

• fault line

• timberline

• cold line

The name for people that went to California looking for gold in 1849.

• German

• Irish

• Chinese

• Forty-niner

The opening created when a volcano erupts.

• fault

• earthquake

• crater

These are cracks in the Earth's outer layer.

• volcano

• fault

• crater

• earthquake

Towns that grew quickly.

• fast towns

• quick towns

• boomtown