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Where slabs of oceanic lithosphere are subjected under continental lithosphere, a ___ volcanic arc can form.
a) oceanic
b) continental
c) seismic
d) intensity

___ is NOT produced by lithospheric plates interacting at convergent boundaries.
a) Trenches
b) Mountain Ranges
c) Volcanoes
d) continents

The relatively soft, weak layer of rock below the lithosphere is the ___.
a) core
b) mantle
c) asthenosphere
d) crust

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

Earthquakes can cause ___ when gas and electric lines are cut.
a) fires
b) aftershocks
c) magnitude
d) rebound

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

Movements that follow a major earthquake often produce smaller earthquakes called ___.
a) foreshocks
b) aftershocks
c) divergent
d) seismic

Elastic ___ is the release of stored energy from rocks that are deformed by stress.
a) convergent
b) intensity
c) magnitude
d) rebound

Alfred Wegener hypothesized that ___ was broken apart by the process of continental drift.
a) Gondwanaland
b) Pangaea
c) Pacific
d) Richter

The place where an earthquake originates is its _____.
a) epicenter
b) focus
c) aftershock
d) magnitude

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

Most shield volcanoes have grown from the ocean floor to form
a) islands
b) dikes
c) canyons
d) tectonic plates

The particles produced in volcanic eruptions are called
a) pyroclastic materials
b) laccoliths
c) calderas
d) volcanic stocks

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

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

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

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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