Earthquakes and Volcanoes

What is the shaking of the Earth’s crust caused by a release of energy?

• Earthquake
• Epicenter
• Fault
• Plate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What is a break in the lithosphere along which movement in an earthquake has first occurred?

• Earthquake
• Epicenter
• Fault
• Focus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The earth has a layer of rock around it called the

• fault

• plates

• pressure

• crust

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

How do earthquakes happen?

• When two plates break away from each other after they were stuck

• When plates move away from each other

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Why do tectonic Plates move?

• Convection Currents

• Geothermal Energy

• Heat from the sun

• Earthquakes

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Earthquakes mainly occur at which boundaries...

• Convergent, Transform

• Divergent, Convergent

• Transform, Divergent

• All of them

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

the most common plate with earthquakes 

• transform boundaries 
• divergent boundaries 
• convergent boundaries 
• plate boundaries 

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

where subduction start

• convergent boundaries 
• divergent boundaries 

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

two plates move away from eachother

• Divergent boundaries
• Transform boundaries

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

plates move past eachother

• Transform boundaries
• Divergent boundaries
• Convergent boundaries

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3