Year 9 Earthquakes and Tsunamis

_________________ has the most active volcanoes in the world. It is located along the __________________________.

Boundary between two plates moving toward each other

• Transform fault boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Strike-slip fault

a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

• tsunami

• landlside

• earthquake

• volcano

This famous transform fault is located in the western United States creates significant earthquake activity for California

• New Madrid
• Denali Fault
• Ramapo Seismic Zone
• San Andreas

Earthquakes are caused when:

• Pressure builds up along a fault line where 2 tectonic plates meet. 

• The release of this energy along the fault causes an earthquake.

• Both A and B

• Neither A nor B

volcanic eruptions tend to happen at landlsides

• true

• false

What is represented by the picture?

• Seafloor spreading

• Pangaea

• How the continents are arranged today

• Gondwana

Use the diagram to answer #11

• Epicenter

• Wave Fronts

• Fault

• Focus