Volcano and Plate Tectonics quiz

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1. What is your age?
Under 18 Years Old
18 to 24 Years Old
25 to 30 Years Old
31 to 40 Years Old
41 to 50 Years Old
51 to 60 Years Old
Over 60 Years Old
2. What is your gender?
Male
Female
3. What does the term plate tectonics mean?
The large slabs of rock on Earth that we live on.
A dinner plate that is high-tech.
The theory that says our Earth's crust is made of giant pieces of rock.
The places where the mountain are.
4. What are tectonic plates?
The major mountains on Earth.
The giant slabs of rock that make up our Earth's crust.
A shiny, silver plate.
Things that make mountains.
5. What do we call places where plates meet?
Plate-meeting place.
Plate line.
Division chord.
Plate boundary.
6. What do we call a place where two plates are moving apart?
Divergent Boundary.
Seperation Point.
Division line.
Transformational-Geological Boundary.
7. What will surely happen when two tectonic plates seperate?
Earthquake.
A ridge forms.
The boundary becomes unstable and there is a breakout of volcanoes.
Two plates form.
8. What type of plate boundary is the San Andreas Fault?
A convergence boundary.
A divisional boundary.
A transform boundary.
A boundary of San Andreas.
9. What happens when pressure is released at a transform boundary?
An earthquake occurs.
Mount St. Helens explodes.
A volcano is formed.
The plate recives too much pressure on the edge and eventually breaks apart.
10. How do continents form?
Two plates seperate and more earth is formed.
As a convergence boundary is created, and as the plate moves in one direction a new continential crust forms on the other end.
A volcano explodes and the magma forms the base for a new continential crust.
A meteor hits earth and forms a new piece of land.
11. What is a volcano?
A big piece of rock that can vomit.
A volcano is an opening or rupture in earth's crust that lets hot, molten rock, ash and gases to escape from below the crust.
A place in the Earth's Crust that is open.
Is a mountain that is sick.
12. How are Volcanoes formed?
When a tectonic plate gets angry.
When two pieces of rock hit each other.
When tectonic plates move apart or come together.
When a piece of rock gets sick and needs to vomit.
13. How many types of volcanoes are there?
1
2
3
4
14. Which one is not a name of a type of volcano?
Shield Volcano
Cinder Cone
Stratovolcano
Subduction-zone volcano
15. What is another name for Stratovolcano?
Big Boom-cano
Fold Volcano
Composite Volcano
Devastating Volcano
16. How are Shield Volcanoes formed?
When a hill becomes a volcano.
When Lava flows out of a central vent and forms a dome like shape.
When a volcano is used as a shield by people.
When one plate meets another at a transform boundary.
17. When did Mount Vesuvius Erupt?
81 AD
69 AD
279 AD
72 BC
79 AD
976 BC
18. What do we call the central point in the earthquake where the energy is being released?
Hypocenter
Focus point
Epicenter
Quake Shake
Utopian Press
Litho center

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