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Volcanoes (Based off Ring of Fire passage)

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Tectonic plates pulling apart from each other

a)

Divergent boundary

b)

Transform boundary

c)

Convergent boundary

d)

Sliding boundary

2.

What is the Ring of Fire?

a)

A chain of volcanoes that forms a ring in China

b)

A Ring of Fire in California

c)

a string of volcanoes and sites of seismic activity, or earthquakes, around the

edges of the Pacific Ocean.

d)

A string of volcanoes only by the Pacific Ocean

3.

What is a Hot Spot?

a)

The data/wifi things on your phone

b)

A very hot round area/spot

c)

A hole in the Earth's mantle that emits boiling water

d)

An area deep in the Earth's mantle that heat rises from

4.

When tectonic plates slide past each other (horizontally)

a)

Divergent boundary

b)

Convergent boundary

c)

Transform boundary

d)

Sliding boundary

5.

When tectonic plates crash into eachother

a)

Divergent boundary

b)

Convergent boundary

c)

Transform boundary

d)

Sliding boundary

6.

What caused the Ring of Fire?

a)

Volcanoes

b)

Tectonic Plates

c)

Man-made volcanoes

d)

Climate change

7.

90% of all what occur in the Ring of Fire?

a)

Explosions

b)

Tornadoes

c)

Floods

d)

Earthquakes

8.

The Ring of Fire has how many volcanoes?

a)

452

b)

20

c)

36

d)

223

9.

What shape is the Ring of Fire in? (Hint: not a circle or ring)

a)

No particular shape

b)

Triangle

c)

Horseshoe

d)

Diamond

10.

What layer of the Earth do tectonic plates move on?

a)

Crust

b)

Mantle

c)

Outer core

d)

Inner core

11.

What is it called when a heavier tectonic plate slides under a lighter one? (often leads to deep trenches)

a)

Sliding zone

b)

Convergent zone

c)

Subduction zone

d)

Divergent zone

12.

What do divergent boundaries cause? (select two)

a)

Seafloor spreading

b)

Holes in the Earth

c)

Deep trenches

d)

Rift valleys

13.

What causes faults in the Earth?

a)

Subduction zones

b)

Transform boundaries

c)

Divergent boundaries

d)

Faulting boundaries