Plate tectonics, volcanoes & earthquakes

Non-explosive, gently sloping volcano made of flat layers of lava

• Cinder cone

• Shield

• Composite

• Transform

Boundary between two plates moving toward each other

• Transform fault boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Strike-slip fault

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Small, steep-sided volcanoes made of loosely packed layers of tephra, very explosive eruptions

• Cinder cone volcano

• Shield volcano

• Composite volcano

• Mauna Loa volcano

In these faults, blocks of rock move sideways on either side of the fault plane

• Reverse faults

• Convergent boundary

• Normal faults

• Strike-slip faults

Earth's solid, rocky surface is the

• crust

• mantle

• core

• fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is represented by the picture?

• Seafloor spreading

• Pangaea

• How the continents are arranged today

• Gondwana

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

If the focus of an earthquake occurs beneath the sea floor, as the seismic waves travel through the ocean, they create a massive and destructive

• epicenter
• tsunami
• focus
• mountain

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

When molten rock reaches the Earth's surface, comes out and begins to cool, it is known as

• lava
• mantle
• magma
• crater

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The movement of Earth's crust along plate boundaries produces

• earthquakes
• volcanoes
• moutains
• All of these options. 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What causes tectonic plates to move?

• ocean currents
• convection currents in the mantle
• volcanoes
• the Coriolis Effect

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3