earthquakes
volcanoes
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What is an earthquake?
a sudden violent shaking of the ground caused by the Earth's tectonic plates
100
What is a volcano?
A mountain that has a crater that magma goes through when it erupts.
200
What kind of scale is used to determine the power of an earthquake?
What is the Richter Scale
200
What kind of plate boundaries cause volcanoes to form?
Convergent boundaries
300
What kind of plate boundaries cause earthquakes?
What is transform-fault boundaries
300
True or false. Volcanoes are caused by divergent plate boundaries.
false they are caused by convergent plate boundaries.
400
What was the most powerful earthquake recorded in history?
in Chile in 1960
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Volcanoes have this come out of it when it erupts. A. people B. sediments C. magma D. fire
C. magma
500
What was the rating of the earthquake that hit Chile in 1960?
What is 9.5
500
Magma comes out of this part of the volcano. A. crater B. bottom C. the side D. the core
A. crater
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