Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics

Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics

7th Grade

15 Qs

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Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics

Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics

Assessment

Quiz

Science

7th Grade

Hard

NGSS
MS-ESS2-3, MS-ESS3-2, MS-ESS2-2

Standards-aligned

Created by

Lisa Thompson

FREE Resource

15 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

When 2 plates move away from each other, it happens at this plate boundary.

Convergent

Divergent

Transform

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Sea-floor spreading at mid-ocean ridges is an example of this type of plate boundary movement.

Convergent

Divergent

Transform

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

This scale rates earthquakes based on the total amount of energy they release.

Mercalli scale

Richter scale

Moment Magnitude scale

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

This scale rates earthquakes based on the level of damage created by an earthquake.

Mercalli scale

Richter scale

Moment magnitude scale

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

This is created after an earthquake where the plates move underwater. Water is displaced and creates huge waves in a body of water.

Tsunami

aftershocks

earthquake

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 12 pts

Which of the following is where one plate slides under another plate?

submarine zone

divergence zone

subduction zone

lower zone

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 12 pts

Media Image

Name the boundary

convergent boundary

divergent boundary

transform boundary

sergent boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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