Name:_______________________
Date:____________
Period:_____
Earthquakes and Volcanoes Vocabulary Test
Fill-in the Blank (Write the correct term on each line).
1. Vibrations produced when rocks break along a fault._____________________
2. Break in rock caused by shear forces, where rocks move past each other without
much vertical movement._______________________________
3. An instrument that records earthquake waves__________________________
4. Measure of the energy released during an earthquake_____________________
5. Opening where magma is forced up and flows out onto Earth's surface as lava,
forming a volcano._______________________________
Matching Questions (Write the correct letter on the lines provided).
____ 6. Focus
____ 7. Cinder Cone Volcano
____ 8. Sill
____ 9. Normal Fault
____ 10.Hot Spot
A. The EXACT spot in the earth's crust
where an earthquake occurs
B. The result of an unusually hot area at
the boundary between Earth's mantle and
core.
C. A steep sided loosely packed volcano
formed when tephra falls to the ground.
D. Break in rock caused by tension forces,
where rock above the fault surface moves
down relative to the rock below the fault
surface.
E. Igneous rock feature formed when
magma is squeezed into a horizontal crack
between layers of rock and hardens
underground.
Multiple Choice Questions (circle the BEST answer choice).
11. Break in rock caused by compressive forces, where rock above the fault
surface moves upward relative to the rock below the fault surface.
a. Reverse Fault
b. Strike Slip Fault
c. Fault
d. Normal Fault
12. Solid igneous rock core of a volcano left behind after the softer cone has been
eroded.
a. Volcanic Neck
b. Magnitude
c. Volcano
d. Epicenter
13. A broad, gently sloping volcano formed by quiet eruptions of basaltic lava.
a. Cinder Cone Volcano
b. Volcano
c. Composite Volcano
d. Shield Volcano
14. Largest intrusive igneous rock body that forms when magma being forced
upward toward Earth's crust cools slowly and solidifies underground.
a. Fault
b. Earthquake
c. Batholith
d. Hot Spot
15. A huge destructive wave (especially one caused by an earthquake)
a. Sill
b. Tsunami
c. Vent
d. Volcano
True/False Questions (Circle true or false for each statement given).
16. Liquefaction → A huge destructive wave (especially one caused by an earthquake)
True
False
17. Composite Volcano → A volcano that forms from alternating explosive and quiet
eruptions that produce layers of tephra and lava.
True
False
18. Epicenter → Point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus
True
False
19. Fault → Igneous rock feature formed when magma is squeezed into a horizontal
crack between layers of rock and hardens underground.
True
False
20. Seismic Wave → The waves produced by earthquakes
True
False