WorksheetsEarthquakes and Volcanoes
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The center point on the surface of an earthquake represented by letter R is called what?
a)
Center point
b)
Focus
c)
Epicenter
d)
Seismic waves
2.
What type of boundary is the San Andreas?
a)
Convergent
b)
Transform
c)
Optimus Prime
d)
Divergent
3.
Where is the point at which the first movement occurs during an earthquake? Reperesented by letter S
a)
Epicenter
b)
Focus
c)
Fault
d)
Plate
4.
What is a break in the rock layers called?
a)
Earthquake
b)
Epicenter
c)
Fault
d)
Focus
5.
Which scale measures the intensity of the ground movement?
a)
Mercalli Scale
b)
Richter Scale
c)
Seismogram Scale
d)
Bernoulli Scale
6.
In this image we have magma rising to the surface and exiting in small amounts. A volcanic mountain has not yet formed. What do we call this?
a)
Hot Spot
b)
Volcano
c)
Fault-Block
7.
Mountains made of huge rocks separated from other rocks by faults are ____ mountains.
a)
folded
b)
volcanic
c)
fault-block
d)
upwarped
8.
What is the difference between magma and lava?
a)
lava is magma but it is on the surface of the Earth
b)
lava is the chamber that magma flows
c)
lava is the Earth's crust
9.
When a rock is under stress and changes shape. What do we call this?
a)
Deformation
b)
Mutation
c)
Compression
10.
What is subduction?
a)
one plate collides with another
b)
one plate destroys another
c)
one plate goes beneath another
d)
one plate divides another
11.
A volcano with a steep slope that has quickly cooling lava and explosive eruptions.
a)
Shield Volcano
b)
Cinder Cone Volcano
c)
Composite Volcano
12.
A volcano with gradual slopes formed by slow cooling lava.
a)
Shield Volcano
b)
Cinder Cone Volcano
c)
Composite Volcano
13.
An upward fold in the layers of the rock. Represented by the letter A.
a)
Anticline
b)
Syncline
c)
Monocline
14.
What type of mountains would form from this type of stress?
a)
Folded Mountains
b)
Fault-Block Mountains
c)
Volcanic Mountains
15.
What types of waves are released from an earthquake?
a)
Energy Waves
b)
Sonic Waves
c)
Seismic Waves
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