Quiz 5: Earthquakes & Seafloors Review
Authored by John Stewart
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9th Grade
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1.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Match these seafloor terms.
seamount
Ring-shaped island made from coral
trench
Any underwater mountain
atoll
An underwater mountain with a flat top
guyot
Deep valley in an ocean that runs along a subduction zone
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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Lava erupting onto the seafloor at seafloor spreading sites tends to produce which type of lava rock?
pillow basalt
pahoehoe
aa
Lazyboy granite
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
What is an accreted terrane?
A portion of an island formed when a large asteroid struck the surface and generated a volcano.
A region of the seafloor solely covered in terrigenous sediment originating from farm runoff
Part of a continent that originated as islands and attached as an oceanic plate converged with the continental plate.
The jumble of material scraped off the top of a subducting plate and then deposited in an oceanic trench.
Tags
NGSS.HS-ESS1-5
4.
LABELING QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Labels these parts of a passive continental margin.
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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2
5.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Match these seismic waves with their definitions.
Primary waves
Compressional seismic waves that move through the Earth underground
Body waves
Seismic waves that move through the Earth underground
Secondary waves
Seismic waves that consist of Love waves and Raleigh waves
Surface waves
Transverse seismic waves that move through the Earth underground
6.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Examine each seismogram to determine the approximate distance of each location from the epicenter:
Middle distance from the epicenter
Furthest from the epicenter
Closest to the epicenter
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS3-2
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What do the circles represent in the map of seismic activity illustrated above?
the distance between waves
the distance to an earthquake epicenter
the seismic wave speeds
the wave travel times
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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
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