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What determines how a volcano will erupt?
What is a plate boundary?
Plate Tectonics
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What is a plate boundary?
a part of the mantle
the outer core
the outside of my dinner plater
A place where two pieces of crust meet
2
What determines how a volcano will erupt?
the composition of the magma
the surrounding area
the type of volcano
the sturdiness of the rock
3
When an oceanic plate and continental plate collide, which one will subduct?
neither
oceanic
idk
continental
4
The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a...?
convergent boundary
transform boundary
dino nugget
divergent boundary
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Transform plates create earthquakes.
False
True
6
Where Are Most Earthquakes and Volcanoes Found?
in oceans
in the middle of continents
in the middle of plates
at plate boundaries
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What are the two types of surface waves?
Rayleigh waves
Love waves
S-waves
P-waves
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Which of the following is the name of the ancient supercontinent formed 28 million years ago?
gondwanda
jungachin
chungus
Pangea
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What is the layer of the Earth in which convection currents occur?
inner core
asthenosphere
crust
pizza
10
Seismic waves are energy released from earthquakes
True
False
11
What are the three types of faults?
reverse
which came first the chicken or the egg?
normal
strike-slip
12
The epicenter is the spot on the surface directly above the focus.
False
True
13
mountains are created when two continental plates pull apart.
True
False
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Transform boundaries are most likely to produce what phenomenon?
volcanoes
underwater mountain ranges
earthquakes
deep-sea trenches
15
Earthquakes happen in tectonic plates.
False
True
16
What measures the waves of the earthquake?
cauliflower
seismograph
my toes feel it
my big brain
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Earthquakes happen all the time and are a result of elastic rebound.
False
True
18
Earthquakes are basically a giant massage chair.
False
True
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What are the three types of stresses?
compression
shear
tension
school
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Identify the three compositional layers of the Earth...
crust
mesosphere
mantle
core
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