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Earth Science Quiz 1

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Facts about volcanoes

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1
Name the earth's layer that has properties like a solid but acts more like a plastic?
crust
outer core
mantle (magma)
inner core
2
What is lava?
A flower that grows near volcanoes
A type of tectonic plate boundary
Magma which has come to the surface (out of a volcano)
A yummy dessert
3
What is the Crown Research Institute in New Zealand that studies and monitors volcanoes?
NIWA
ESR
GNS
AgResearch
4
Name the earth's layer in order from the surface...
skin, fruit, core
inner core, mantle, crust, outer core
crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
mantle, outer core, inner core, crust
5
How many active volcanoes are there in New Zealand?
20
1
none
7
6
Name the earth's layer that is thought to be liquid...
Inner Core
Crust
Mantle
Outer Core
7
What is subduction?
When an oceanic plate dives under a continental plate
A tricky maths problem
A type of earthquake
When two continental plates crash together
8
What is a lahar?
A mudslide from a volcano
A dance
A kind of fault in the earth's crust
A type of volcano
9
Geology is the study of...
materials and chemical reactions
butterflies
the body and the processes within it
the earth, rocks and the processes that change it
10
Name the 2 tectonic plates that New Zealand lies on...
Australian and Pacific plates
Austalian and Cocos plates
Austalian and Eurasian plates
African and Pacific plates