Tectonic Plates and Earthquakes

Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in which locations?

• At plate boundaries

• in oceans

• in the middle of continents

• in the middle of plates

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Transform boundaries are most likely to produce what phenomenon?

• volcanoes

• deep sea trenches

• underwater mountain ranges

• earthquakes

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Earth's  lithosphere is broken into pieces called

• crust

• rock

• plates

• fault

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A fracture in earth's crust is a

• tsunami

• fault

• Ring of Fire

• epicenter

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The hypothesis that explains the release of energy during an earthquake is called the
(a)  

• Elastic rebound hypothesis

• Richter hypothesis

• Moment magnitude hypothesis

• Vibration hypothesis

A strong earthquake that occurs on the ocean floor could result in the formation of
(a)  

• A tsunami

• A delta

• An el nino event

• low tides

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A teacher asks students to make a model of a transform plate boundary. The students use blocks to represent tectonic plates and slide the blocks past each other in the directions of the arrows as shown.

Which event can the students best demonstrate with their model?

• An earthquake

• A volcanic eruption

• Formation of a rift valley

• Building up of a mountain

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Where are earthquakes most likely to occur?

• In the middle of plates

• In the oceans

• Along plate boundaries

• Anywhere on the Earth

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Which event can the students best demonstrate their model?

• Earth quake

• A volcanic eruption

• Formation of a rift valley

• Building up of a mountain

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Sometimes tectonic plates do not move easily past one another, and the plates become stuck. Forces build up, and when the plates finally move, tension is released, as shown below. The sudden movement of the plates is caused by -

• the mass of the plates

• the weight of the plates

• unbalance forces

• gravitational force

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