Major Geologic Events

Many natural events occur in the Pacific Ring of Fire. Based on your knowledge of tectonic plates, what events occur here?

• Volcanic eruptions

• Mountain ridges

• Both volcanic eruptions and mountain ridges

• First a volcanic eruption and then formation of mountain ridges

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What is the shaking of the Earth’s crust caused by a release of energy?

• Earthquake

• Epicenter

• Fault

• Plate

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What are the "waves" called that come from an earthquake?

• Thunder

• Seismic 

• Hang 10

• Lava

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Select all that are TRUE about Tectonic Plates.

• Creates Divided Boundary

• Creates Divergent Boundary

• Creates Convergent Boundary

• Creates Concave Boundary

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What type of geologic events happen due to plate tectonic movement?

• Droughts, floods, blizzards

• Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, mountain formation, and oceanic trench formation

• Meteor showers, solar flares, lunar eclipses

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Around 250 million years ago at the end of the Permian Period, 90 percent of the planet’s species became extinct. One of the major causes of the mass extinction is believed to be massive volcanic eruptions. These giant eruptions added large amounts of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

How would these additional gases contribute to the mass extinctions?

• depletion of the ozone layer

• decrease in the amount of rainfall

• change in the composition of the sea shelves

• increase in the temperature of the atmosphere

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What key event occurred about 295 million years ago?

• humans originated

• the asteroid event cause extinction of dinosaurs

• dinosaurs appeared

• Pangea formed

• explosion of life

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What type of event usually marks the end of a Geologic Era?

• A mass extinction

• A mass evolution

• A mass selection

• A mass destruction

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Which major event marks the end of the Paleozoic era?

• The appearance of mammals

• The Permian-Triassic extinction event

• The first appearance of fish

• The formation of the supercontinent Pangaea

Select all that are TRUE about Convergent Boundary.

• Plates move in opposite direction

• Plates slide under each other

• Forms San Andrea Fault

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