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WorksheetsActive Planet Year 3
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 14mins
What do we call the giant slabs of rock that make up the Earth's crust?
Tectonic plates
What is the name of the centre of the Earth?
What is this?
A supercontinent called Pangea
An alien planet called Pangea
A country called Pangea
A city called Pangea
Why did Pangea break up into separate continents?
Because of plate tectonics
Because there was a war
Because the dinosaurs broke the crust
I don't know
What word should go in box number 2?
Plate
Fault line
Epicentre
Hypocentre
What word should go in box number 5?
Plate
Fault line
Epicentre
Hypocentre
What word should go in box number 4?
Plate
Fault line
Epicentre
Hypocentre
When an earthquake happens, energy is released. Is this energy released in one shock, or over time in many shocks?
In one shock
In many shocks
The crater is right on top of the volcano.
True
False
Convergent tectonic plate movement is when two plates are moving towards each other. True or false?
True
False
What is the biggest tectonic plate?
Pacific plate
North American plate
Eurasian plate
African plate
What is the mouth of a volcano called?
Secondary vent
Ace ventura
Crater
Magma chamber
What is the red area on this map showing?
Where the hottest temperatures in the world are
The Pacific Ring of Fire
The North American Plate
The Eurasian Plate
In which country would you find Mount Fuji?
Nether
United States
Indonesia
Japan
Active and extinct are two volcano stages. Can you name a third?
Semi-conscious
Slumberous
Comatose
Dormant
What is the name for the middle layer of the earth?
Mantle
Core
Crust
Continent
volcanoes can be
active, dormant or extinct
active, sleeping or flat
inactive, dormant and extinct
______ is a hot liquid rock that comes from a volcano.
volcano
magma
summit
base
lava
What type of volcano cannot erupt again?
A dormant volcano.
An extinct volcano.
An active volcano.
What type of volcano erupts quite often?
A dormant volcano.
An extinct volcano.
An active volcano.
What type of volcano erupted a long time ago but can erupt again?
A dormant volcano.
An extinct volcano.
An active volcano.
True or false? Volcanoes only exist on land.
True
False
