Earthquakes, Volcanic Eruptions, And Mountains
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Questions and Answers
- 1.Earthquakes may be caused by
- A.
Plates sliding past each other
- B.
Lava flowing down the side of a volcano
- C.
Plates spreading apart
- D.
Hot magma
- 2.What is magma?
- A.
Hot lava that erupts out of volcanoes
- B.
The reason volcanoes form
- C.
Mixture of molten rock found beneath the surface of the earth
- D.
All of the above
- 3.What are the three different type of plant movements?
- A.
Divergent, consurgent, and translucent
- B.
Divergent, convergent and transform
- C.
Insurgent, continental, and transform
- D.
Divergent, insurgent and allegiant
- 4.Mountains are formed by two divergent plates moving away from each other.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.When the denser oceanic plate subducts under the continental crust, it ________ up and turns into magma.
- 6.A mountain is formed after
- A.
An earthquake
- B.
A volcano erupts
- C.
Weathering
- D.
A storm
- 7.Plate tectonics is: a theory explaining that the Earth's outer layer (crust) is made up of large _______ ________ that are constantly moving over a weak layer of molten rock.
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