Earthquakes and Volcanoes

The center point on the surface of an earthquake represented by letter R is called what?

• Center point
• Focus
• Epicenter
• Seismic waves

What type of boundary is the San Andreas?

• Convergent
• Transform
• Optimus Prime
• Divergent

Where is the point at which the first movement occurs during an earthquake? Reperesented by letter S

• Epicenter
• Focus
• Fault
• Plate

What is a break in the rock layers called?

• Earthquake
• Epicenter
• Fault
• Focus

Which scale measures the intensity of the ground movement?

• Mercalli Scale
• Richter Scale
• Seismogram Scale
• Bernoulli Scale

In this image we have magma rising to the surface and exiting in small amounts. A volcanic mountain has not  yet formed. What do we call this?

• Hot Spot
• Volcano
• Fault-Block

Mountains made of huge rocks separated from other rocks by faults are ____ mountains.

• folded
• volcanic
• fault-block
• upwarped

What is the difference between magma and lava?

• lava is magma but it is on the surface of the Earth
• lava is the chamber that magma flows
• lava is the Earth's crust

When a rock is under stress and changes shape. What do we call this?

• Deformation
• Mutation
• Compression

What is subduction?

• one plate collides with another
• one plate destroys another
• one plate goes beneath another
• one plate divides another