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What are earthquakes?
a) The shaking of earth's crust caused by underground vibrations.
b) Enormous ocean waves caused by underground earthquakes, landslides, or volcanoes.
c) Places on earth's surface where gases, ash, and lava spew onto the surface.
d)
What are tsunamis?
a) Enormous ocean waves caused by underground earthquakes, landslides, or volcanoes.
b) Places on earth's surface where gases, ash, and lava spew onto the surface.
c) The shaking of earth's crust caused by underground vibrations.
d)
What are volcanoes?
a) Places on earth's surface where gases, ash, and lava spew onto the surface.
b) Enormous ocean waves caused by underground earthquakes, landslides, or volcanoes.
c) The shaking of earth's crust caused by underground vibrations.
d)
What are faults?
a) Cracks in Earth's crust along which movement occurs.
b) Large sheets of rock that make up Earth's crust.
c) A scale that measures the strength of earthquakes.
d)
What are plates?
a) Large sheets of rock that make up Earth's crust.
b) A scale that measures the strength of earthquakes.
c) Cracks in Earth's crust along which movement occurs.
d)
What is the Richter scale?
a) A scale that measures the strength of earthquakes.
b) Cracks in Earth's crust along which movement occurs.
c) Moving masses of soil and rock that flow slopes.
d)
What are landslides?
a) Moving masses of soil and rock that flow slopes.
b) A dirt and debris-filled flood of water.
c) Melted, liquid rock beneath Earth's surface.
d)
What are mudslides?
a) A dirt and debris-filled flood of water.
b) Moving masses of soil and rock that flow slopes.
c) Melted, liquid rock beneath Earth's surface.
d)
What is magma?
a) Melted, liquid rock beneath Earth's surface.
b) Moving masses of soil and rock that flow slopes.
c) A dirt and debris-filled flood of water.
d)
True or false: mudslides and landslides are the same.
a) False.
b) True.
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