WorksheetsVolcanoes (Based off Ring of Fire passage)
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Tectonic plates pulling apart from each other
Divergent boundary
Transform boundary
Convergent boundary
Sliding boundary
What is the Ring of Fire?
A chain of volcanoes that forms a ring in China
A Ring of Fire in California
a string of volcanoes and sites of seismic activity, or earthquakes, around the
edges of the Pacific Ocean.
A string of volcanoes only by the Pacific Ocean
What is a Hot Spot?
The data/wifi things on your phone
A very hot round area/spot
A hole in the Earth's mantle that emits boiling water
An area deep in the Earth's mantle that heat rises from
When tectonic plates slide past each other (horizontally)
Divergent boundary
Convergent boundary
Transform boundary
Sliding boundary
When tectonic plates crash into eachother
Divergent boundary
Convergent boundary
Transform boundary
Sliding boundary
What caused the Ring of Fire?
Volcanoes
Tectonic Plates
Man-made volcanoes
Climate change
90% of all what occur in the Ring of Fire?
Explosions
Tornadoes
Floods
Earthquakes
The Ring of Fire has how many volcanoes?
452
20
36
223
What shape is the Ring of Fire in? (Hint: not a circle or ring)
No particular shape
Triangle
Horseshoe
Diamond
What layer of the Earth do tectonic plates move on?
Crust
Mantle
Outer core
Inner core
What is it called when a heavier tectonic plate slides under a lighter one? (often leads to deep trenches)
Sliding zone
Convergent zone
Subduction zone
Divergent zone
What do divergent boundaries cause? (select two)
Seafloor spreading
Holes in the Earth
Deep trenches
Rift valleys
What causes faults in the Earth?
Subduction zones
Transform boundaries
Divergent boundaries
Faulting boundaries
