Mountains and Volcanoes

Which event most likely formed this land feature?

• Hot liquid rick moving to the surface

• Rivers depositing large amounts of sand

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Which of these most likely results from plate movement?

• Sandy Beaches

• Mountain Ranges

• Global Winds

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The theory explaining that Earth's crust is made up of moving plates

• Erosion

• Natural disasters

• Plate tectonics

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Mountains are created by

• Plates in Earth's crust pushing against each other

• Earthquakes inside the ocean

• Rocks melting deep inside Earth

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What is a volcano?

• Any tall mountain

• A place where magma erupts

• A body of water that can explode

• An event where the ground shakes

When plates move, it results in ______, _______ and _____.

• landslides, mudslides and floods

• crust, mantle and core

• mountain building, earthquakes and volcanoes

• dormant, active and extinct

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

When plates are pushed together, the crust is forced upward, producing ____ mountains.

• dormant

• volcanic

• fault block

• folded

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The three types of volcanoes are ____, ____ and ____.

• fault block, volcanic and folded

• active, dormant and extinct

• soil, rocks and magma

A volcano is an opening in the Earth's ____.

• core

• mantle

• magma

• crust

When one plate is pushed below the other, a line of ____ mountains can form.

• fault-block

• volcanic

• extinct

• folded

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