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Which of the following is a geographic example of a transform fault boundary?
a) the East African Rift Valley
b) the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
c) the San Andreas Fault
d) the Mariana Arc
What type of volcano is fairly symmetrical and has both layers of lava and pyroclastic deposits?
a) a cinder cone
b) a shield
c) a pyroclastic
d) a composite cone
What is a volcanic bomb?
a) a very violent volcanic explosion
b) a particle larger that is 64 mm in size ejected as glowing lava
c) a pocket of gas that is released suddenly
d) a tiny particle of ejected rock less that 64 mm in size
The particles produced in volcanic eruptions are called
a) pyroclastic materials
b) laccoliths
c) calderas
d) volcanic stocks
Most shield volcanoes have grown from the ocean floor to form
a) islands
b) dikes
c) canyons
d) tectonic plates
Which factors do not determine violence of a volcanic eruption?
a) composition of magma
b) temperature
c) dissolved gases in magma
d) size of the volcano
The place where an earthquake originates is its _____.
a) epicenter
b) focus
c) aftershock
d) magnitude
Alfred Wegener hypothesized that ___ was broken apart by the process of continental drift.
a) Gondwanaland
b) Pangaea
c) Pacific
d) Richter
Elastic ___ is the release of stored energy from rocks that are deformed by stress.
a) convergent
b) intensity
c) magnitude
d) rebound
Movements that follow a major earthquake often produce smaller earthquakes called ___.
a) foreshocks
b) aftershocks
c) divergent
d) seismic
What are factors that determine the damage to buildings and other structures?
a) intensity
b) design of the structure
c) size of the seismic waves
d) nature of the material a structure is sitting on
Earthquakes can cause ___ when gas and electric lines are cut.
a) fires
b) aftershocks
c) magnitude
d) rebound
An area along a fault where there has not been any earthquake activity in a long period of time is called a(n) ___ gap.
a) rebound
b) seismic
c) foreshock
d) divergent
The relatively soft, weak layer of rock below the lithosphere is the ___.
a) core
b) mantle
c) asthenosphere
d) crust
___ is NOT produced by lithospheric plates interacting at convergent boundaries.
a) Trenches
b) Mountain Ranges
c) Volcanoes
d) continents
Where slabs of oceanic lithosphere are subjected under continental lithosphere, a ___ volcanic arc can form.
a) oceanic
b) continental
c) seismic
d) intensity
A(n) ___ lava flow resembles the twisted braids in rope as it cools and hardens.
a) AA
b) Pahoehoe
c) lithosphere
d) shield
At ___ boundaries, oceanic lithosphere plunges beneath an overriding lithospheric plate.
a) divergent
b) convergent
c) transform fault
d) pyroclastic material
The accumulation of fluid basaltic lava produces a(n) ___ volcano.
a) cinder cone
b) composite cone
c) caldera
d) shield
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