8.ESS3.2

Vibrations caused when stress makes rocks pass their elastic limit.

• epicenter

• Earthquake

• strike-slip

• surface wave

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The fault where forces are pulling apart.

• Strike-slip

• Reverse

• Normal

• divergent

The fault where forces are pulling apart.

• Strike-slip

• Reverse

• Normal

• divergent

The fault where forces are pulling apart.

• Strike-slip

• Reverse

• Normal

• divergent

The map shows the Ring of Fire surrounding the Pacific Ocean.

Which of the following factors contributes to this area being so active?

• a. Several tectonic plates are converging.

• b. The tectonic plates are spreading further apart.

• c. The tectonic plates are regenerating to form new crust.

• d. Heat generated by the tectonic plates melts the oceanic crust.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Changes to the Earth’s surface and underwater can take place slowly or violently when they occur. What is the relationship between mountain building, volcanoes, and earthquakes?

• a. They mostly occur in the oceans and in the center of plates at land boundaries because of convection currents.

• b. They mostly occur at plate boundaries and are generated from eruptions that occur on land due to convection currents.

• c. They mostly occur in the oceans and change the sea floor by spreading apart to make new rock.

• d. They mostly occur at plate boundaries and are generated by plate motions from convection currents.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Where is there a high risk of an earthquake occurring?

• a. Where two plates slide past one another

• b. Where two plates collide and form mountains

• c. Where two plates collide, and one is subducted

• d. All of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

In which location would you most likely find volcanoes?

• a. far from plate boundaries

• b. along transform boundaries

• c. where two continental plates collide

• d. along mid-ocean ridges and where a plate is subducted

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

How can plate tectonics cause volcanic eruptions?

• a. When two plates pull apart, the crust fractures and releases magma.

• b. When an oceanic plate is subducted under a continental plate, rock melts, and magma rises upward.

• c. When two oceanic plates collide, the denser crust is pushed down, rock melts, and magma rises upward.

• d. All of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Johanna was interested in volcanology and studied various types of volcanoes and where they form. Hawaii, for example, is a volcanic island chain. Which best describes the location of the Hawaiian Islands?

• a. subduction zone

• b. convergent boundary

• c. normal fault

• d. hot spot