What can happen when a transform fault suddenly releases its energy?
A. a hurricane
B. a tornado
C. a storm
D. an earthquake
What is an earthquake?
100
Hawaii is the center of the "ring of fire" and is caused by______.
A. trench
B. a hot spot
C. earthquake
D. all of these
What is a hot spot?
100
What is a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust, causing the ground to shake called?
A. earthquakes
B. trenches
C. both A and B
D. mountains
What is earthquakes?
100
What is a mountain formed by lava and ash?
A. a volcano
B. a earthquake
C. a hurricane
D. a folded mountains
What is a volcano?
100
The San Andreas fault is a classical _______ boundary?
A. transform
B. strike-slip
C. convergent
D. divergent
What is transform?
200
When continental plates collide, ______ is formed.
A. folded mountains
B. mushrooms
C. volcanoes
D. all of these
What are folded mountains?
200
Underwater ________ occur where plates move apart.
A. cities
B. hurricanes
C. trenches
D. ridges
What are ridges?
200
A break in the earths crust is a _________.
A. fault line
B. tsunamis
C. compound fracture
D. volcano
What is fault line?
200
Hot, soft rock from the earth's mantle is ________.
A. sand
B. limestone
C. granite
D. magma
What is magma?
200
The ________ is where the slip initiated the earthquake.
A. dip
B. focus
C. scarp
D. epicenter
What is epicenter?
300
The earth as one large land mass was called ______.
A. a ridge
B. Pangea
C. bering strait
D. Collosum
What is Pangea?
300
Which of the following are not associated with convergent plate margins?
A. deep-focus earthquakes
B. riff valleys
C. island arcs
D. deep sea trenches
What is riff valleys?
300
Transform faults ___________.
A. often offset seafloor spreading centers
B. can cut across continents
C. involve horizontal movement
D. all of these
What is all of these?
300
What is a good effect that a volcano can have?
A. clears land of trees
B. forms islands in oceans
C. reduces the population
D. none of these
What is forms islands in oceans?
300
Most of the volume of our planet is composed of _______.
A. islands
B. lithosphere
C. crust
D. mantle
What is mantle.
400
The theory that plates move upon the earth.
A. Dinner table shift
B. Plate tectonics
C. Mass movement
D. Newton's Law of Gravity
What is Plate tectonics?
400
A deep area in the ocean where one plate sinks beneath another.
A. mountain
B. trench
C. volcano
D. none of these
What is a trench?
400
What type of faulting would be most likely to occur along transform faults?
A. normal faulting
B. strike-slip faulting
C. reverse faulting
D. all of these
What is strike slip faulting?
400
Why is Hawaii made of volcanoes?
A. the plates are moving apart
B. the plates are moving together
C. a hot spot exists
D. to attract tourists
What is a hot spot exists?
400
Silicate liquids that exist beneath the surface of the Earth are called ________.
A. lava
B. magma
C. coal
D. dirt
What is magma
500
Where magma pushes two plates apart are called _______.
A. normal faults
B. divergent faults
C. trenches
D. tug-of-wars
What is divergent faults?
500
Continental crust is __________ then oceanic crust.
A. less dense
B. heavier
C. thinner
D. all of these
What is less dense?
500
Where is the San Andreas fault located?
A. Atlantic Ocean
B. Hawaii
C. California
D. Pacific Ocean
What is California?
500
What causes volcanoes?
A. oceanic plates colliding with continental plates
B. oceanic plates colliding with another oceanic plate
C. hot spots
D. all of the above
What is all of the above?
500
Man uses geothermal energy from the earth to _________.
A. produce oil
B. generate electricity
C. make lava cake
D. all of these