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Plate Tectonics,Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Unit B - Chapters 3, 4 & 5
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1. What material are Earth's inner core and outer core both made of?
2. How do the thickness and densities of Earth's crust and mantle differ?
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1. What material are Earth's inner core and outer core both made of?
Metal
2. How do the thickness and densities of Earth's crust and mantle differ?
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1. What material are Earth's inner core and outer core both made of?
Metal
2. How do the thickness and densities of Earth's crust and mantle differ?
The crust is thinner and less dense than the mantle
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1. What material are Earth's inner core and outer core both made of?
Metal
2. How do the thickness and densities of Earth's crust and mantle differ?
The crust is thinner and less dense than the mantle
3. Which layer of Earth contains the tectonic plates?
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1. What material are Earth's inner core and outer core both made of?
Metal2. How do the thickness and densities of
Earth's crust and mantle differ? The crust is thinner and less dense than the
mantle3. Which layer of Earth contains the tectonic
plates?lithosphere
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2. How do the thickness and densities of Earth's crust and mantle differ?
The crust is thinner and less dense than the mantle
3. Which layer of Earth contains the tectonic plates?
Lithosphere
4. What evidence did Wegener use to support continental drift?
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3. Which layer of Earth contains the tectonic plates?
Lithosphere
4. What evidence did Wegener use to support continental drift?
Fossils, climate, geology
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3. Which layer of Earth contains the tectonic plates?
Lithosphere
4. What evidence did Wegener use to support continental drift?
Fossils, climate, geology
5. How does the age of oceanic crust at a mid-ocean ridge compare to crust at a trench?
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3. Which layer of Earth contains the tectonic plates?
Lithosphere4. What evidence did Wegener use to
support continental drift? Fossils, climate, geology
5. How does the age of oceanic crust at a mid-ocean ridge compare to crust at a trench? It is younger at the mid-ocean ridge and
older at the trench
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4. What evidence did Wegener use to support continental drift?
Fossils, climate, geology
5. How does the age of oceanic crust at a mid-ocean ridge compare to crust at a trench?
It is younger at the mid-ocean ridge and older at the trench
6. How do island arcs form?
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4. What evidence did Wegener use to support continental drift?
Fossils, climate, geology
5. How does the age of oceanic crust at a mid-ocean ridge compare to crust at a trench?
It is younger at the mid-ocean ridge and older at the trench
6. How do island arcs form?
Oceanic plates converge
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5. How does the age of oceanic crust at a mid-ocean ridge compare to crust at a trench?
It is younger at the mid-ocean ridge and older at the trench
6. How do island arcs form?
Oceanic plates converge
7. What feature is caused by a continental-continental collision?
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5. How does the age of oceanic crust at a mid-ocean ridge compare to crust at a trench?
It is younger at the mid-ocean ridge and older at the trench
6. How do island arcs form?
Oceanic plates converge
7. What feature is caused by a continental-continental collision?
Mountain ranges
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6. How do island arcs form?
Oceanic plates converge
7. What feature is caused by a continental-continental collision?
Mountain ranges
8. Why do most earthquakes occur at plate boundaries?
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6. How do island arcs form?
Oceanic plates converge
7. What feature is caused by a continental-continental collision?
Mountain ranges
8. Why do most earthquakes occur at plate boundaries?
Large amounts of stress build up as plates move.
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7. What feature is caused by a continental-continental collision?
Mountain ranges
8. Why do most earthquakes occur at plate boundaries?
Large amounts of stress build up as plates move.
9. What is the moment magnitude scale based on?
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8. Why do most earthquakes occur at tectonic plate boundaries? Large amounts of stress build up as plates move. 9. What is the moment magnitude scale based on? The amount of energy released by an earthquake
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8. Why do most earthquakes occur at tectonic plate boundaries? Large amounts of stress build up as plates move. 9. What is the moment magnitude scale based on? The amount of energy released by an earthquake 10. What are smaller earthquakes that occur in an area shortly after a larger earthquake called?
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8. Why do most earthquakes occur at tectonic plate boundaries? Large amounts of stress build up as plates move. 9. What is the moment magnitude scale based on? The amount of energy released by an earthquake 10. What are smaller earthquakes that occur in an area shortly after a larger earthquake called?
Aftershocks
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9. What is the moment magnitude scale based on? The amount of energy released by an earthquake 10. What are smaller earthquakes that occur in an area shortly after a larger earthquake called?
Aftershocks
11. What type of stress causes normal faults?
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9. What is the moment magnitude scale is based on? The amount of energy released by an earthquake 10. What are smaller earthquakes that occur in an area shortly after a larger earthquake called?
Aftershocks
11. What type of stress causes normal faults?
Rocks being pulled apart
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10. What are smaller earthquakes that occur in an area shortly after a larger earthquake called?
Aftershocks
11. What type of stress causes normal faults?
Rocks being pulled apart
12. When an earthquake occurs, which are the first seismic waves to reach a nearby city?
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10. What are smaller earthquakes that occur in an area shortly after a larger earthquake called?
Aftershocks
11. What type of stress causes normal faults?
Rocks being pulled apart
12. When an earthquake occurs, which are the first seismic waves to reach a nearby city?
Primary waves
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12. When an earthquake occurs, which are the first seismic waves to reach a nearby city?
Primary waves
13. What is the point on Earth's surface directly above where rocks first start to move during an earthquake?
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12. When an earthquake occurs, which are the first seismic waves to reach a nearby city?
Primary waves
13. What is the point on Earth's surface directly above where rocks first start to move during an earthquake? Epicenter
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12. When an earthquake occurs, which are the first seismic waves to reach a nearby city? Primary waves
13. What is the point on Earth's surface directly above where rocks first start to move during an earthquake? Epicenter
14. What is the instrument that scientists use to record seismic waves?
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12. When an earthquake occurs, which are the first seismic waves to reach a nearby city? Primary waves
13. What is the point on Earth's surface directly above where rocks first start to move during an earthquake? Epicenter
14. What is the instrument that scientists use to record seismic waves?
Seismograph
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13. What is the point on Earth's surface directly above where rocks first start to move during an earthquake? Epicenter
14. What is the instrument that scientists use to record seismic waves? Seismograph 15. What type of wave is caused by an earthquake in the ocean floor?
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13. What is the point on Earth's surface directly above where rocks first start to move during an earthquake? Epicenter
14. What is the instrument that scientists use to record seismic waves? Seismograph 15. What type of wave is caused by an earthquake in the ocean floor?
Tsunami
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14. What is the instrument that scientists use to record seismic waves? Seismograph 15. What type of wave is caused by an earthquake in the ocean floor? Tsunami
16. What aspect of an earthquake can scientists usually predict?
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14. What is the instrument that scientists use to record seismic waves? Seismograph 15. What type of wave is caused by an earthquake in the ocean floor? Tsunami
16. What aspect of an earthquake can scientists usually predict?
The earthquake risk of an area
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15. What type of wave is caused by an earthquake in the ocean floor? Tsunami
16. What aspect of an earthquake can scientists usually predict? The earthquake risk of an area
17. What helps reduce earthquake damage to tall office buildings?
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15. What type of wave is caused by an earthquake in the ocean floor? Tsunami
16. What aspect of an earthquake can scientists usually predict? The earthquake risk of an area
17. What helps reduce earthquake damage to tall office buildings? Cross braces
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16. What aspect of an earthquake can scientists usually predict? The earthquake risk of an area
17. What helps reduce earthquake damage to tall office buildings? Cross braces
18. How does a folded mountain belt form?
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16. What aspect of an earthquake can scientists usually predict? The earthquake risk of an area
17. What helps reduce earthquake damage to tall office buildings? Cross braces
18. How does a folded mountain belt form? Two continental plates push together.
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17. What helps reduce earthquake damage to tall office buildings? Cross braces
18. How does a folded mountain belt form? Two continental plates push together.
19. Where do fault-block mountains form?
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17. What helps reduce earthquake damage to tall office buildings? Cross braces
18. How does a folded mountain belt form? Two continental plates push together.
19. Where do fault-block mountains form? Between parallel normal faults
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18. How does a folded mountain belt form? Two continental plates push together.
19. Where do fault-block mountains form? Between parallel normal faults
20. An opening through which lava, rocks, and gases erupt is called a ______________.
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18. How does a folded mountain belt form? Two continental plates push together.
19. Where do fault-block mountains form? Between parallel normal faults
20. An opening through which lava, rocks, and gases erupt is called a ______________.
Volcano
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19. Where do fault-block mountains form? Between parallel normal faults
20. An opening through which lava, rocks, and gases erupt is called a ______________. Volcano
21. Where do most volcanoes occur?
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19. Where do fault-block mountains form? Between parallel normal faults
20. An opening through which lava, rocks, and gases erupt is called a ______________. Volcano
21. Where do most volcanoes occur?
Along plate boundaries
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20. An opening through which lava, rocks, and gases erupt is called a ______________. Volcano
21. Where do most volcanoes occur? Along plate boundaries
22. Why do scientists monitor volcanoes?
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20. An opening through which lava, rocks, and gases erupt is called a ______________. Volcano
21. Where do most volcanoes occur? Along plate boundaries
22. Why do scientists monitor volcanoes?
To predict when future eruptions will occur
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21. Where do most volcanoes occur? Along plate boundaries
22. Why do scientists monitor volcanoes? To predict when future eruptions will occur
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21. Where do most volcanoes occur? Along plate boundaries
22. Why do scientists monitor volcanoes? To predict when future eruptions will occur
23. What effect of a volcanic eruption can travel the farthest?
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22. Why do scientists monitor volcanoes? To predict when future eruptions will occur
23. What makes a pyroclastic flow so dangerous? Its speed and its temperature
24. What effect of a volcanic eruption can travel the farthest? Ash clouds, because they can be carried by the
wind
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23. What effect of a volcanic eruption can travel the farthest? Ash clouds, because they can be carried by the wind
24. What signs might indicate that a volcano might soon erupt?
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23. What effect of a volcanic eruption can travel the farthest? Ash clouds, because they can be carried by the wind
24. What signs might indicate that a volcano might soon erupt? Rising temperatures in volcanic lakes, small
tremors, bulges in the ground
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23. What effect of a volcanic eruption can travel the farthest? Ash clouds, because they can be carried by the wind
24. What signs might indicate that a volcano might soon erupt? Rising temperatures in volcanic lakes, small tremors, bulges in the ground
25. Hot springs that erupt and send hot water shooting into the air are called ______________.
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23. What effect of a volcanic eruption can travel the farthest? Ash clouds, because they can be carried by the wind
24. What signs might indicate that a volcano might soon erupt? Rising temperatures in volcanic lakes, small tremors, bulges in the ground
25. Hot springs that erupt and send hot water shooting into the air are called ______________. Geysers
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