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Challenge Workshop Week 1: Earth & Me

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 49mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is magma called when it reaches the surface of Earth?

a)

Lava

b)

Viscosity

c)

Toxic gas

2.

What is the measure of the amount of energy released in an earthquake?

a)

Earthquake

b)

Epicenter

c)

Magnitude

3.

The Richter Scale is an old method that measured:

a)
the amount of radon gas released
b)
the movement of plates
c)
the strength of an earthquake
d)
the weight of tectonic plates
4.
What is the definition of dormant?
a)
sleeping
b)
extinct
c)
active
d)
invisible
5.
This is the name for the chain of volcanos around the edge of the Pacific Plate.
a)
Circle of Fire
b)
Ring of Lava
c)
Ring of Fire
d)
Circle of Magma
6.

What is the definition of mantle?

a)

2nd layer of the Earth, made up of magma

b)

center of the Earth

c)

pieces of the Earth's crust

d)

top of the volcano

7.

Boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other

a)

convergent boundary

b)

divergent boundary

c)

transform boundary

d)

Ring of Fire

8.

A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions

a)

transform boundary

b)

seafloor spreading

c)

convergent boundary

d)

divergent boundary

9.

A tectonic plate boundary where two plates collide, come together, or crash into each other

a)

divergent boundary

b)

transform boundary

c)

convergent boundary

d)

continental drift (Pangea)

10.
A giant landmass that existed 200 million years ago
a)
Wegener
b)
Pangaea
c)
Archyopteryx
d)
Ammonite