Volcanoes and Earthquakes Quiz
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- Q1Which layer of the earth is made out of liquid metals?mantleouter coreinner corecrust30s
- Q2The crust is broken into pieces called-mini cruststectonic plateskitchen platestsunamis30s
- Q3The plates of the crust move around very slowly.FalseTrue30s
- Q4When two tectonic plates move towards each other, they meet at a:divergent boundarytransform boundaryconvergent boundary30s
- Q5Which layer of the earth is the thickest?mantlecrustouter coreinner core30s
- Q6What type of volcano is this?cone volcanoshield volcano30s
- Q7Which type of volcano has thick lava?cone volcanoshield volcano30s
- Q8Thin lava that contains a lot of gas bubbles usually erupts ________________continuously forming gentle slopesexplosively30s
- Q9The energy that is released from an earthquake is:epicentermagnitudefocustsunami30s
- Q10What kind of plate movement causes earthquakes?transformconvergentdivergent30s
- Q11The place that an earthquake originates from is called the:focusseismic waveepicentertransform30s
- Q12An earthquake with a magnitude of 2.1 is much stronger than an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5.FalseTrue30s
- Q13Different types of lava create different types of volcanoes.FalseTrue30s
- Q14Two tectonic plates are moving away from each other at a:convergent boundarydivergent boundarytransform boundary30s
- Q15What type of volcano is this?cone volcanoshield volcano30s
