Volcano and Plate Tectonics quiz

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  1. What does the term plate tectonics mean?
  2. What are tectonic plates?
  3. What do we call places where plates meet?
  4. What do we call a place where two plates are moving apart?
  5. What will surely happen when two tectonic plates separate?
  6. What type of plate boundary is the San Andreas Fault?
  7. What happens when pressure is released at a transform boundary?
  8. How do continents form?
  9. What is a volcano?
  10. How are Volcanoes formed?
  11. How many types of volcanoes are there?
  12. Which one is not a name of a type of volcano?
  13. What is another name for Stratovolcano?
  14. How are Shield Volcanoes formed?
  15. When did Mount Vesuvius Erupt?
  16. What do we call the central point in the earthquake where the energy is being released?

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