Plate Boundaries, Earthquakes and Volcanoes

Where do volcanoes come from?

• Places where plates move apart

• Places where plates are moving together

• Hot Spots

• All of these options

What is the best explanation for why oceanic crust is subducted by continental crust?

• The oceanic crust is cooler than continental crust.

• Continental crust is denser than oceanic crust.

• Oceanic crust is denser than continental crust.

• The oceanic crust is hotter than continental crust.

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• Volcano

• Mountain

• Rift

• Island Arc

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

What is the measure of the amount of energy released in an earthquake?

• Earthquake

• Epicenter

• Magnitude

• Seismogram

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• strike slip

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The place on the Earth's surface, above the origin of the earthquake.

• Epicenter

• Focus

• Surface

• Crust

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The group of volcanoes located around the Pacific Ocean are known as

• Aleutian Islands

• Hawaiian Islands

• Ring the Fire

• LaLa Land

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What type of boundary pushes together forming folded mountains?

• transform boundary

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• caldera

What is the instrument used to measure earthquakes?

• Seismograph

• Seismologist

• Scale

• Seismogram

Which of the following descriptions describes a dormant volcano?

• volcano that is erupting

• volcano that has erupted in recent history

• volcano that scientists believe will never erupt again

• volcano that has not erupted in a long time, but may erupt again