Earth Science Quiz

What is the vibration of earth due to rapid release of energy?

• Earthquake

• Fault

• Fracture

• Hot spot

What is a device used to record earthquakes?

• Seismogram

• Seismograph

• Sonar

• Submersible

What is produced when plates slide against each other?

• Earthquake

• Mountain Range

• Trench

• Volcano

What is the space between two tectonic plates?

• Boundary

• Fault

• Rift

• Trench

What is the oceanic crust made off?

• Basaltic rocks

• Feldspar

• Granitic rocks

• Quartz

Which of these is false about crustal plates?

• have the same thickness everywhere

• include the crust and upper mantle

• thickness in the mountain region

• vary in thickness

What makes up the lithosphere?

• continental crust

• crust and upper mantle

• oceanic crust and continental crust

• upper mantle

The geologic age of volcano C is shown, what could be the age of VOLCANO D?

• 4 million years

• at present

• 10 million years

• 2 million years

In which layer is the deepest explorations?

• Crust

• Inner core

• Mantle

• Outer core

How are earthquake distributed on the map?

• Randomly distributed

• Not randomly distributed

• Orderly

• Organize