Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes

Non-explosive, gently sloping volcano made of flat layers of lava

• Cinder cone

• Shield

• Composite

• Transform

Boundary between two plates moving toward each other

• Transform fault boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Strike-slip fault

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Small, steep-sided volcanoes made of loosely packed layers of tephra, very explosive eruptions

• Cinder cone volcano

• Shield volcano

• Composite volcano

• Mauna Loa volcano

In these faults, blocks of rock move sideways on either side of the fault plane

• Reverse faults

• Convergent boundary

• Normal faults

• Strike-slip faults

Earth's solid, rocky surface is the

• crust

• mantle

• core

• fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What is represented by the picture?

• Seafloor spreading

• Pangaea

• How the continents are arranged today

• Gondwana

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Volcanoes that have recently erupted are known as:

• Extinct Volcano

• Dormant Volcano

• Active Volcano

• What's a volcano?

Volcanoes that have not erupted for at least 10,000 years are described as...

• Sleeping

• Dormant

• Active

• Extinct

This type of boundary creates folded mountains.

• transform

• divergent

• continental-continental convergent

• continental-oceanic convergent

What year did Alfred Wegener first propose the Continental Drift Theory?

• 1918

• 1914

• 1921

• 1912

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3