Challenge Me!

What natural phenomenon makes the ground shakes by releasing tremendous energy from the focus?

• Typhoon

• Earthquake

• Tsunami

• Landslide

What do you call the rigid sections of the lithosphere that moves as a unit?

• Fault

• Plates

• Fracture

• Rocks

What instrument is used to record the vibration in the ground and determine the location of an earthquake’s epicenter?

• focus meter

• focus seismic map

• seismogram

• seismograph

What can you say about the location where most of the earthquake epicenters, active volcanoes, and mountain ranges are found?

• It marks the boundaries of each lithospheric plates.

• It mainly focuses in one particular area only.

• It is randomly distributed.

• It is not visible.

What type of boundary exists between two oceanic crusts moving towards each other?

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• strike-slip fault

• transform boundary

In which pair of plates can you find a divergent boundary?

• Nazca and South American

• Pacific and Eurasian

• African and Indo-Australian

• North American and Eurasian

What type of convergence exists between Nazca Plate and South American Plate?

• Oceanic to oceanic

• Oceanic to continental

• Continental to Continental

• Ridges to ridges

It can be seen from the map that South American plate and African plate are moving in opposite directions. What boundary lies between the two plates?

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• strike-slip fault

• transform boundary

Which of the following plates shows a convergent plate boundary?

• African and South American Plates

• North American and Eurasian Plates

• Antarctic and Australian Plates

• Eurasian and Pacific Plates

Which plate boundary is formed between the Pacific plate and the Eurasian plate?

• convergent

• divergent

• reverse fault

• transform fault