Plate Tectonics,
Earthquakes and
Volcanoes
Unit B - Chapters 3, 4 & 5
1. What material are Earth's inner core and
outer core both made of?
2. How do the thickness and densities of
Earth's crust and mantle differ?
What material are Earth's inner core and
outer core both made of?
Metal
2. How do the thickness and densities of
Earth's crust and mantle differ?
1.
What material are Earth's inner core and
outer core both made of?
Metal
2. How do the thickness and densities of
Earth's crust and mantle differ?
The crust is thinner and less dense than the
mantle
1.
What material are Earth's inner core and
outer core both made of?
Metal
2. How do the thickness and densities of
Earth's crust and mantle differ?
The crust is thinner and less dense than the
mantle
3. Which layer of Earth contains the tectonic
plates?
1.
What material are Earth's inner core and
outer core both made of?
Metal
2. How do the thickness and densities of
Earth's crust and mantle differ?
The crust is thinner and less dense than the
mantle
3. Which layer of Earth contains the tectonic
plates?
lithosphere
1.
2. How do the thickness and densities of
Earth's crust and mantle differ?
The crust is thinner and less dense than the
mantle
3. Which layer of Earth contains the tectonic
plates?
Lithosphere
4. What evidence did Wegener use to
support continental drift?
3. Which layer of Earth contains the tectonic
plates?
Lithosphere
4. What evidence did Wegener use to
support continental drift?
Fossils, climate, geology
3. Which layer of Earth contains the tectonic
plates?
Lithosphere
4. What evidence did Wegener use to
support continental drift?
Fossils, climate, geology
5. How does the age of oceanic crust at a
mid-ocean ridge compare to crust at a
trench?
3. Which layer of Earth contains the tectonic
plates?
Lithosphere
4. What evidence did Wegener use to
support continental drift?
Fossils, climate, geology
5. How does the age of oceanic crust at a
mid-ocean ridge compare to crust at a
trench?
It is younger at the mid-ocean ridge and
older at the trench
4. What evidence did Wegener use to
support continental drift?
Fossils, climate, geology
5. How does the age of oceanic crust at a
mid-ocean ridge compare to crust at a
trench?
It is younger at the mid-ocean ridge and
older at the trench
6. How do island arcs form?
4. What evidence did Wegener use to
support continental drift?
Fossils, climate, geology
5. How does the age of oceanic crust at a
mid-ocean ridge compare to crust at a
trench?
It is younger at the mid-ocean ridge and
older at the trench
6. How do island arcs form?
Oceanic plates converge
5. How does the age of oceanic crust at a
mid-ocean ridge compare to crust at a
trench?
It is younger at the mid-ocean ridge and
older at the trench
6. How do island arcs form?
Oceanic plates converge
7. What feature is caused by a continentalcontinental collision?
5. How does the age of oceanic crust at a
mid-ocean ridge compare to crust at a
trench?
It is younger at the mid-ocean ridge and
older at the trench
6. How do island arcs form?
Oceanic plates converge
7. What feature is caused by a continentalcontinental collision?
Mountain ranges
6. How do island arcs form?
Oceanic plates converge
7. What feature is caused by a continentalcontinental collision?
Mountain ranges
8. Why do most earthquakes occur at plate
boundaries?
6. How do island arcs form?
Oceanic plates converge
7. What feature is caused by a continentalcontinental collision?
Mountain ranges
8. Why do most earthquakes occur at plate
boundaries?
Large amounts of stress build up as plates
move.
7. What feature is caused by a continentalcontinental collision?
Mountain ranges
8. Why do most earthquakes occur at plate
boundaries?
Large amounts of stress build up as plates
move.
9. What is the moment magnitude scale
based on?
8. Why do most earthquakes occur at tectonic
plate boundaries?
Large amounts of stress build up as plates move.
9. What is the moment magnitude scale based on?
The amount of energy released by an earthquake
8. Why do most earthquakes occur at tectonic
plate boundaries?
Large amounts of stress build up as plates move.
9. What is the moment magnitude scale based on?
The amount of energy released by an earthquake
10. What are smaller earthquakes that occur in an
area shortly after a larger earthquake called?
8. Why do most earthquakes occur at tectonic
plate boundaries?
Large amounts of stress build up as plates move.
9. What is the moment magnitude scale based on?
The amount of energy released by an earthquake
10. What are smaller earthquakes that occur in an
area shortly after a larger earthquake called?
Aftershocks
9. What is the moment magnitude scale based on?
The amount of energy released by an earthquake
10. What are smaller earthquakes that occur in an
area shortly after a larger earthquake called?
Aftershocks
11. What type of stress causes normal faults?
9. What is the moment magnitude scale is based
on?
The amount of energy released by an earthquake
10. What are smaller earthquakes that occur in an
area shortly after a larger earthquake called?
Aftershocks
11. What type of stress causes normal faults?
Rocks being pulled apart
10. What are smaller earthquakes that occur in an
area shortly after a larger earthquake called?
Aftershocks
11. What type of stress causes normal faults?
Rocks being pulled apart
12. When an earthquake occurs, which are the first
seismic waves to reach a nearby city?
10. What are smaller earthquakes that occur in an
area shortly after a larger earthquake called?
Aftershocks
11. What type of stress causes normal faults?
Rocks being pulled apart
12. When an earthquake occurs, which are the first
seismic waves to reach a nearby city?
Primary waves
12. When an earthquake occurs, which are the first
seismic waves to reach a nearby city?
Primary waves
13. What is the point on Earth's surface directly
above where rocks first start to move during an
earthquake?
12. When an earthquake occurs, which are the first
seismic waves to reach a nearby city?
Primary waves
13. What is the point on Earth's surface directly
above where rocks first start to move during an
earthquake?
Epicenter
12. When an earthquake occurs, which are the first
seismic waves to reach a nearby city?
Primary waves
13. What is the point on Earth's surface directly
above where rocks first start to move during an
earthquake?
Epicenter
14. What is the instrument that scientists use to
record seismic waves?
12. When an earthquake occurs, which are the first
seismic waves to reach a nearby city?
Primary waves
13. What is the point on Earth's surface directly
above where rocks first start to move during an
earthquake?
Epicenter
14. What is the instrument that scientists use to
record seismic waves?
Seismograph
13. What is the point on Earth's surface directly
above where rocks first start to move during an
earthquake?
Epicenter
14. What is the instrument that scientists use to
record seismic waves?
Seismograph
15. What type of wave is caused by an earthquake
in the ocean floor?
13. What is the point on Earth's surface directly
above where rocks first start to move during an
earthquake?
Epicenter
14. What is the instrument that scientists use to
record seismic waves?
Seismograph
15. What type of wave is caused by an earthquake
in the ocean floor?
Tsunami
14. What is the instrument that scientists use to
record seismic waves?
Seismograph
15. What type of wave is caused by an earthquake
in the ocean floor?
Tsunami
16. What aspect of an earthquake can scientists
usually predict?
14. What is the instrument that scientists use to
record seismic waves?
Seismograph
15. What type of wave is caused by an earthquake
in the ocean floor?
Tsunami
16. What aspect of an earthquake can scientists
usually predict?
The earthquake risk of an area
15. What type of wave is caused by an earthquake
in the ocean floor?
Tsunami
16. What aspect of an earthquake can scientists
usually predict?
The earthquake risk of an area
17. What helps reduce earthquake damage to tall
office buildings?
15. What type of wave is caused by an earthquake
in the ocean floor?
Tsunami
16. What aspect of an earthquake can scientists
usually predict?
The earthquake risk of an area
17. What helps reduce earthquake damage to tall
office buildings?
Cross braces
16. What aspect of an earthquake can scientists
usually predict?
The earthquake risk of an area
17. What helps reduce earthquake damage to tall
office buildings?
Cross braces
18. How does a folded mountain belt form?
16. What aspect of an earthquake can scientists
usually predict?
The earthquake risk of an area
17. What helps reduce earthquake damage to tall
office buildings?
Cross braces
18. How does a folded mountain belt form?
Two continental plates push together.
17. What helps reduce earthquake damage to tall
office buildings?
Cross braces
18. How does a folded mountain belt form?
Two continental plates push together.
19. Where do fault-block mountains form?
17. What helps reduce earthquake damage to tall
office buildings?
Cross braces
18. How does a folded mountain belt form?
Two continental plates push together.
19. Where do fault-block mountains form?
Between parallel normal faults
18. How does a folded mountain belt form?
Two continental plates push together.
19. Where do fault-block mountains form?
Between parallel normal faults
20. An opening through which lava, rocks, and
gases erupt is called a ______________.
18. How does a folded mountain belt form?
Two continental plates push together.
19. Where do fault-block mountains form?
Between parallel normal faults
20. An opening through which lava, rocks, and
gases erupt is called a ______________.
Volcano
19. Where do fault-block mountains form?
Between parallel normal faults
20. An opening through which lava, rocks, and
gases erupt is called a ______________.
Volcano
21. Where do most volcanoes occur?
19. Where do fault-block mountains form?
Between parallel normal faults
20. An opening through which lava, rocks, and
gases erupt is called a ______________.
Volcano
21. Where do most volcanoes occur?
Along plate boundaries
20. An opening through which lava, rocks, and
gases erupt is called a ______________.
Volcano
21. Where do most volcanoes occur?
Along plate boundaries
22. Why do scientists monitor volcanoes?
20. An opening through which lava, rocks, and
gases erupt is called a ______________.
Volcano
21. Where do most volcanoes occur?
Along plate boundaries
22. Why do scientists monitor volcanoes?
To predict when future eruptions will occur
21. Where do most volcanoes occur?
Along plate boundaries
22. Why do scientists monitor volcanoes?
To predict when future eruptions will occur
21. Where do most volcanoes occur?
Along plate boundaries
22. Why do scientists monitor volcanoes?
To predict when future eruptions will occur
23. What effect of a volcanic eruption can travel
the farthest?
22. Why do scientists monitor volcanoes?
To predict when future eruptions will occur
23. What makes a pyroclastic flow so dangerous?
Its speed and its temperature
24. What effect of a volcanic eruption can travel
the farthest?
Ash clouds, because they can be carried by the
wind
23. What effect of a volcanic eruption can travel
the farthest?
Ash clouds, because they can be carried by the
wind
24. What signs might indicate that a volcano might
soon erupt?
23. What effect of a volcanic eruption can travel
the farthest?
Ash clouds, because they can be carried by the
wind
24. What signs might indicate that a volcano might
soon erupt?
Rising temperatures in volcanic lakes, small
tremors, bulges in the ground
23. What effect of a volcanic eruption can travel
the farthest?
Ash clouds, because they can be carried by the
wind
24. What signs might indicate that a volcano might
soon erupt?
Rising temperatures in volcanic lakes, small
tremors, bulges in the ground
25. Hot springs that erupt and send hot water
shooting into the air are called ______________.
23. What effect of a volcanic eruption can travel
the farthest?
Ash clouds, because they can be carried by the
wind
24. What signs might indicate that a volcano might
soon erupt?
Rising temperatures in volcanic lakes, small
tremors, bulges in the ground
25. Hot springs that erupt and send hot water
shooting into the air are called ______________.
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