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Why does the Atlantic Ocean have no volcanoes or tsunamis?
a) They have been very lucky
b) There are no plate boundaries near by
c) It is too deep
d) They are against the law
Which is most predictable?
a) Earthquakes
b) Volcanic Eruptions
c) Tsunamis
d) Weather
Which is not caused by convection currents?
a) Earthquakes
b) Volcanic Eruptions
c) Tsunamis
d) Weather
Which is not a result of Plate Tectonics?
a) Earthquakes
b) Erosion
c) Tsunamis
d) Volcanic Eruptions
What type of plate boundary causes major earthquakes in San Francisco?
a) Hot Spot
b) Divergent
c) Convergent
d) Transform
What caused the Japanese tsunami?
a) Two continental plates colliding and sending ripples of water to Japan
b) An earthquake along the transformation boundary in California that send a large wave all the way across the pacific
c) Volcanic eruptions of the volcanoes in Japan causes massive earthquakes which led to the tsunami
d) Slipping of the Pacific Plate under the North American plate causing a large release of energy in the ocean
What type of plate boundary formed the Andes Mountains in S. America?
a) Transform
b) Divergent
c) Convergent
d) No actual boundary - just a hot spot
What are the three types of plate boundaries?
a) transform, divergent, convergent
b) rift, trench, mountain
c) oceanic, continental, hotspot
d) subduction, elevation, collision
What causes earthquakes, volcanoes, mountains and trenches?
a) Rocks pushing up from the outer core of the earth
b) Convection currents cause tectonic plates to shift and interact with each other
c) Ocean tides cause plates to shift and collide with each other
d) Overtime as the earths crust starts to break down it causes major earth events.
Which describes magma as it rises in the to the asthenosphere?
a) It heats up
b) It cools off
c) It cannot rise
d) it loses density
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