Earthquakes and Volcanoes

What is an epicenter? 

• Where an earthquake started
• The surface right above where an earthquake started 

What is a convergent boundary?

• When two plates move away from each other.
• When two plates move toward each other.

What is a fault?

• A crack in a plate.
• Where two plates move toward each other.

An instrument that detects and measures earthquakes is a 

• seismogram
• focus seismic map
• focus
• seismograph 

Most earthquakes happen along the _________________. 

• coast
• faults
• desert
• directions

Earthquakes under the water can cause _________________________________.

• tornadoes
• tsunamis
• lightening
• hailstorms

Many earthquakes happen along the borders of...

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

This earthquake is......?

• Convergent
• Transform
• Divergent
• Rift Zone

The Richter scale measures:

• the amount of radon gas released
• the movement of plates
• the strength of an earthquake
• the weight of tectonic plates

A  line of volcanic activity that surrounds the Pacific Ocean basin is the 

• Ring of Fire
• Aleutian Islands
• Hawaiian Islands
• Caribbean Islands