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Natural Disasters

Quiz by Padiso Chaka

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  • Q1

    Tectonic Plates are:

    The outer layer of the earth.

    Something else. 

    Broken pieces of the crust that move often.

    Broken pieces of rocks that move often.

    60s
  • Q2

    Outer most layer of the earth

    Mantle

    Tsunami

    Lithospher

    Crust

    60s
  • Q3

    Weather conditions prevailing in an area for a long period of time:

    Bridge

    Climate 

    Weather 

    Cold 

    60s
  • Q4

    Avalanches are: 

    Available balance at the bank.

    When snow moves down a slope(Mountain).

    A type of drink. 

    When rocks, mud, and other artificial materials move down a slope(Mountain or hill) 

    60s
  • Q5

    When tectonic plates move(slippage in faults), they release a large amount of energy that creates waves through the ground called seismic waves:

    Tsunami

    Floods 

    Earthquakes 

    Avalanche/Landslide

    60s
  • Q6

    Seismic focus and epicenter 

    Focus on floods.

    Focus to learn. 

    The center of focus for a natural disaster.

    Where the tectonic plates slippage is. 

    60s
  • Q7

    Earthquakes cannot cause. 

    Volcanic eruption

    Building collapse 

    Cyclones and droughts 

    Tsunami and wildfire 

    60s
  • Q8

    Sinkholes are caused by

    People create drought in other regions. 

    Water and wind naturally erode soil and weaken the ground. 

    Water on the beach flows in and outside the ocean.

    60s
  • Q9

    Movement of the tectonic plates, resulting in waves giving out heat energy that melts the rocks creates:

    Fluids. 

    Volcano.

    Limnic flow.

    Flood.

    30s
  • Q10

    When the melted rocks are outside the surface on the surface of the earth they are called: 

    Melted rocks 

    Lava

    Magma

    Heated rocks 

    60s
  • Q11

    When volcanic ash mixes with water it creates;

    Concrete

    Clay

    Volcanic Mud 

    Mud

    60s
  • Q12

    Volcanic ash flowing down a slope(Mountain/ hill) in a form of hot cloud ash is called: 

    Hot ash cloud 

    Seismic Wave

    Richter scale 

    Pyroclastic flow 

    60s
  • Q13

    Which city in ancient Rome was destroyed by a volcanic eruption 

    Paris 

    Greece

    Rome

    Pompeii

    60s
  • Q14

    A mudflow/land flow of volcanic lava is called:

    lava

    Lahar

    Mentinomar 

    Meteor

    60s
  • Q15

    Volcanoes that kill a lot of people in a large area

    Marry Volcanoes 

    Mini volcanoes 

    Supervolcano

    Mega Volcano

    60s

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