Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes

Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes

9th Grade

15 Qs

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Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes

Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes

Assessment

Quiz

Science

9th Grade

Hard

NGSS
MS-ESS2-3, HS-ESS2-1, MS-ESS2-1

+2

Standards-aligned

Created by

Lisa Thompson

FREE Resource

15 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Non-explosive, gently sloping volcano made of flat layers of lava

Cinder cone

Shield

Composite

Transform

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Boundary between two plates moving toward each other

Transform fault boundary

Divergent boundary

Convergent boundary

Strike-slip fault

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Small, steep-sided volcanoes made of loosely packed layers of tephra, very explosive eruptions

Cinder cone volcano

Shield volcano

Composite volcano

Mauna Loa volcano

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In these faults, blocks of rock move sideways on either side of the fault plane

Reverse faults

Convergent boundary

Normal faults

Strike-slip faults

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Earth's solid, rocky surface is the

crust

mantle

core

fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

What is represented by the picture?

Seafloor spreading

Pangaea

How the continents are arranged today

Gondwana

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Volcanoes that have recently erupted are known as:

Extinct Volcano

Dormant Volcano

Active Volcano

What's a volcano?

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