Listening to Earth Article

1. What does NOAA Stand for?

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Noises Outstanding Around Asthenosphere

• Noises On or Around the Asthenosphere

• National Oceanic Asthenosphere Administration

What is the name of the instrument Dziak uses to listen to sounds under the ocean?

• Microphones

• Hydrophone

• Special glass cases on microphones

• The Challenger Deep

How are convergent plate boundaries formed?

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_____and _____ are common at convergent plate boundaries

• earthquakes

• volcanic activity

• trenches

• mid ocean ridges

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Dziak uses his equipment to study the smaller earthquakes called...

• aftershock

• foreshock

• earthshock

• rumble

Mid Ocean Ridges are formed at....

• Transform Plate Boundaries

• Convergent Plate Boundaries

• At any plate boundary

• Divergent Plate Boundaries

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Most Plates have a _____ boundary on one side and a _____ boundary on the other.

• divergent, convergent

• transform, convergent

• convergent, divergent

• divergent, transform

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On the side with the convergent boundary, plate material is ______ into the mantle and _____.

• sinking, creating new plate

• rising, being destroyed

• rising, and creating new plate

• sinking, being destroyed

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On the divergent plate boundary side, the new plate material is being _____ at the ________.

• made, trench

• destroyed, mid ocean ridge

• made, mid ocean ridge

• destroyed, trench

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By listneing to the ocean around divergent plate boundaries, Dziak and his team can detect _____ and _______ that humans wouldn't know about in any other way.

• mid ocean ridges, volcanic activity

• earthquakes, trenches

• mid ocean ridges, trenches

• earthquakes, volcanic activity

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