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Worksheets4th Grade Geology
Total questions: 32
Worksheet time: 16mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which letter represents the crust?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
2.
Which letter represents the inner core?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
3.
Which letter represents the mantle?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
4.
Which letter represents the outer core?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
5.
Any fracture or crack in the earth's crust
a)
Geology
b)
Fault
c)
Tsunami
d)
Earthquake
6.
What does Pangaea mean?
a)
A wave caused by an underwater earthquake
b)
The Study of the earth, what it's made up of, and how it changes
c)
An area in the Pacific Ocean where several plates meet; many earthquakes and volcanoes occur in this area
d)
Theory of how the continents were once grouped into one large land mass that broke apart because of plate movement
7.
What is the idea that the earth's crust is broken into a number of large pieces (tectonic plates) that are slowly moving, like ships floating on water?
a)
Continental Drift
b)
Tsunami
c)
Pangaea
d)
Richter Scale
8.
What is the study of the earth, what it's made up of, and how it changes?
a)
Pangaea
b)
Ring of Fire
c)
Geology
d)
Geyser
9.
What is the famous fault in California that can produce devastating earthquakes?
a)
The New Madrid Seismic Fault
b)
Danali Fault
c)
Cascadia Fault
d)
San Andreas Fault
10.
What 2 things are needed to measure the intensity of earthquakes?
a)
Seismograph and Key Scale
b)
Seismograph and Richter Scale
c)
Richter Scale and Bore Gauge
d)
Polygraph and Richter Scale
11.
What is a sudden and violent shifting in Earth's crust and may occur when two plates slide past each other?
a)
Earthquake
b)
Volcano
c)
Tsunami
d)
Tornado
12.
What is a tsunami?
a)
Sliding of plates
b)
A wave caused by an underwater earthquake
c)
Magma chapters erupting
d)
Cracking in earth's crust
13.
What is the Ring of Fire?
a)
An area in the Pacific Ocean where several plates meet; many earthquakes and volcanoes occur in this area
b)
A place where the earth's crust is fractured
c)
Volcanic activity happening underground, which heats water in the crust
d)
An underwater earthquake
14.
What kind of volcano is currently erupting or expect to erupt?
a)
Dormant
b)
Extinct
c)
Active
15.
What kind of volcano shows no signs of activity for a very long time and is very unlikely to erupt in the future.
a)
Dormant
b)
Extinct
c)
Active
16.
What kind of volcano has had no recent activity, but scientist believe it will erupt again?
a)
Dormant
b)
Extinct
c)
Active
17.
Which of these is NOT a famous volcano?
a)
Mount St. Helens
b)
Vesuvius
c)
San Andreas
d)
Krakatoa
18.
Which famous volcano is in Washington State?
a)
Mount St. Helens
b)
Vesuvius
c)
Krakatoa
19.
Which letter represents the magma chamber?
a)
A
b)
H
c)
B
d)
G
20.
Which letter represents the vent?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
21.
Which letter represents the lava?
a)
B
b)
D
c)
E
d)
G
22.
Which letter represents the ash cloud?
a)
B
b)
D
c)
E
d)
G
23.
Which letter represents the conduit?
a)
B
b)
D
c)
E
d)
G
24.
Which letter represents the side vent?
a)
B
b)
C
c)
G
d)
H
25.
Which letter represents the crust?
a)
B
b)
C
c)
G
d)
H
26.
What is volcanic activity happening underground that results in the water on the surface being heated?
a)
Geyser
b)
Hot Springs
c)
Tsunami
d)
Volcano
27.
What is an eruption of a column of steam and hot water that blasts through cracks in the crust?
a)
Tsunami
b)
Volcano
c)
Earthquake
d)
Geyser
28.
Which type of mountain is formed when magma bulges up beneath the crust but doesn't explode?
a)
Volcanic
b)
Folded
c)
Fault Block
d)
Dome
29.
Which type of mountain is formed when two plates collide and the crust bends or folds?
a)
Volcanic
b)
Folded
c)
Fault Block
d)
Dome
30.
Which type of mountain is formed when magma explodes out of an opening in the crust and can grow quickly?
a)
Volcanic
b)
Folded
c)
Fault Block
d)
Dome
31.
Which type of mountain is formed when one part of the crust is forced up between 2 faults?
a)
Volcanic
b)
Folded
c)
Fault Block
d)
Dome
32.
What is the deepest place in all the oceans on Earth, deeper than Mt Everest is tall?
a)
San Andreas Fault
b)
Mariana Trench
c)
Mount St. Helens
d)
Ring of Fire
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