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WorksheetsPlate tectonics, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What are the Earth's landmasses called?
a)
Pangea
b)
Oceans
c)
Continents
2.
When magma reaches the surface, what is it called?
a)
lava
b)
explosive
c)
rocks
3.
What is the shaking and trembling that results from movement of rock beneath Earth's surface?
a)
Volcanoes
b)
Earthquakes
c)
Plate tectonics
4.
What is the crust that makes up the ocean floor called?
a)
oceanic crust
b)
crust
c)
continental crust
5.
How do Geologists classify volcanic eruptions?
a)
Quiet or Explosive
b)
Dormant or Extinct
c)
Active or Non active
6.
The movement of tectonics plates at a fault is a cause of what?
a)
convergent boundaries
b)
rift valleys
c)
Earthquakes
7.
New seafloor is formed through the process of what?
a)
seafloor spreading
b)
continental drift
c)
divergent boundaries
8.
Scientists think that the movement of Earth's tectonic plates are caused by convection currents, that are located in the _________?
a)
outer core
b)
inner core
c)
mantle
9.
What is an area where material from deep within the mantle rises and then melts, forming magma?
a)
hot spot
b)
lithosphere
c)
transform boundary
10.
What are underwater mountain ranges called?
a)
boundaries
b)
mid-ocean ridges
c)
rift valleys
11.
Features formed at divergent boundaries are called?
a)
mountains
b)
earthquakes
c)
rift valleys
12.
What is a weak spot in the crust where molten material, or magma, comes to the surface?
a)
volcano
b)
lava
c)
earthquakes
13.
The place where old crust is pushed down into a trench is called what?
a)
subduction
b)
convection current
c)
deep-ocean trench
14.
What is a rating of an earthquake's magnitude based on the size of the earthquake's seismic waves?
a)
seismograph
b)
seismogram
c)
Richter scale
15.
Two plates move toward each other at what?
a)
convergent boundary
b)
transform boundary
c)
divergent boundary
16.
What is the record of an earthquake's seismic waves produced by a seismograph?
a)
Richter
b)
magnitude
c)
seismogram
17.
The idea that Earth's crust is made up of separate plates that float on the upper mantle is the theory of what?
a)
plate tectonics
b)
continental drift
c)
Pangea
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