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Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes
Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes
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A 20 question game to test your knowledge of Plate tectonics, Volcanoes, and Earthquakes.
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1
What type of lava is shown?
Pahoehoe
Caldera
Aa
Lapilli
2
The Pacific Ring of Fire is considered to be a
Felsic Chamber
Caldera
Hot Spot
Cinder
3
Earthquakes often trigger
Rayleigh Waves
Tsunamis
Faults
Secondary Waves
4
Pangea is a part of which hypothesis
Plate Tectonics
Convection Cells
Continental Drift
5
Most volcanoes occur at
Transform Boundaries
Divergent and Convergent Boundaries
Divergent and Transform Boundaries
Convergent Boundaries
6
Which forms large mountain ranges?
Continent with Continent
Ocean with Ocean
Ocean with Continent
7
Divergent boundaries are caused by
Sheering Forve
Tension Forces
Plate Subduction
8
Which is not a type of quiet eruption?
Pahoehoe Lava
Aa Lava
Silicate Lava
9
This fault slides horizontally due to a shearing force
Converged
Normal
Reverse
Strike-Slip
10
Which was not a part of Wegner's hypothesis?
Similar crops
Similar rock formations
Similar fossils
Similarites in coastlines
11
What are volcanic bombs?
Pieces of volcano that have blown off
Molten rock starts to cool in air
12
Dormant volcanoes have no magma available
False
True
13
Which is not a type of convergent boundary?
Ocean with Ocean
Continent with Continent
Ocean with Ridge
Ocean with Continent
14
A type of volcano that has broad, gentle slopes, and made of lava
Sheid
Cinder
Composite
15
In a normal fault the hanging wall moved down due to tension
True
False
16
Mafic Magma has a high viscosity
True
False
17
Waves that travel through a medium
Body Waves
Surface Waves
18
Energy released during an earthquake
Epicenter
Focus
Seismic Wave
19
The epicenter is the location in earth where motion occurs
True
False
20
Transform boundaries create what as they scrape past each other?
Mid Ocean Ridge
Earthquakes
Trenches
Volcanoes
