Key Enquiry Question 1 Quiz

What is a hazard in the context of tectonic activity?

• A beneficial natural event

• A potential threat to human life and property

• A type of weather pattern

• A geological formation

What is studied to understand how seismic waves travel through the Earth?

• Wadati-Benioff foci

• Oceanic ridges

• Magnetic patterns

• Volcanic eruptions

What is the result of built-up pressure from a melting plate in a continental and oceanic destructive boundary?

• Formation of island arcs

• Explosive volcanoes bursting through the continental plate

• Sea floor spreading

• Formation of fold mountains

What is the main feature formed at a destructive plate boundary between continental and oceanic plates?

• Sea floor spreading

• Fold mountains

• Ocean trench

• Island arcs

What type of boundary involves magma rising to form new land?

• Destructive plate boundary

• Constructive plate boundary

• Transform plate boundary

• Convergent plate boundary

What is the main geological feature formed by the pile-up of continental crust?

• Ocean trenches

• Island arcs

• Fold mountains

• Sea floor spreading

What force is responsible for pushing plates further apart in ridge push?

• Wind

• Gravity

• Water currents

• Magnetic fields

What happens to the land in the middle of a continental separation?

• It becomes a mountain

• It forms a rift valley

• It turns into a desert

• It becomes a forest

What can result from crustal fracturing?

• Earthquakes

• Tsunamis

• Landslides, avalanches, and liquefaction

• Volcanic eruptions

Which scale is used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake using the arrival times of primary and secondary waves?

• Mercalli Scale

• Richter Scale

• Volcanic Explosivity Index

• Hazard Profile