Quiz Review - Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Tectonic Plates

Theory that Earth's crust is divided into plates & the plates move around on the mantle

• Seafloor spreading

• Plate tectonics

• Continental drift

• Earthquakes

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Boundary between two plates moving toward each other

• Transform fault boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Strike-slip fault

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Shaking of the ground caused by sudden movement of large blocks of rocks along a fault

• Earthquake

• Volcano

• Tsunami

• Surface waves

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

These waves move along Earth's surface & cause the most damage

• Surface waves

• Primary waves

• Secondary waves

• D waves

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The point on Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake

• Juan de fuca plate

• Focus

• Seismic wave

• Epicenter

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

In an earthquake, the point underground where the rocks first begin to move

• Epicenter

• Normal fault

• Focus

• Reverse fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Fastest seismic waves, first to reach a location after an earthquake, also called P waves

• Secondary waves

• Seismic waves

• Primary waves

• Surface waves

In these faults, blocks of rock move sideways on either side of the fault plane

• Reverse faults

• Convergent boundary

• Normal faults

• Strike-slip faults

In these faults, the block of rock above the fault plane slides down relative to the other block

• Normal fault

• Reverse fault

• Backwards fault

• Strike-slip fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Along these faults, the block of rock above the fault plane moves up relative to the other block

• Reverse fault

• Normal fault

• Upside down fault

• Strike-slip fault