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Science: Middle School: Grades 6, 7 and 8 Quiz - Earthquakes and Volcanoes 3 (Questions)

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Mount Etna is an active volcano. Volcanoes can be caused by mantle plumes. These so-called hotspots, for example at Hawaii, can occur far from plate boundaries. Hotspot volcanoes are also found elsewhere in the solar system, especially on rocky planets and moons!

Earthquakes on the seabed can cause what?

[ ]	Origamis
[ ]	Toonarmies
[ ]	Tsunamis
[ ]	Typhoons

The volcano that erupted in Washington state in 1980 was Mount what?

[ ]	St Helens
[ ]	St James
[ ]	St Neots
[ ]	St Swithins

What word describes the plates of the earth's crust?

[ ]	Platonic
[ ]	Subsonic
[ ]	Technotronic
[ ]	Tectonic

Where the edges of plates meet is called what?

[ ]	Plate boundary
[ ]	Plate border
[ ]	Plate junction
[ ]	Plate seam

Which volcanoes are formed from runny lava and have gently sloping sides?

[ ]	Ash volcanoes
[ ]	Composite volcanoes
[ ]	Dome volcanoes
[ ]	Shield volcanoes

Volcanoes that have erupted recently are called what?

[ ]	Active
[ ]	Alert
[ ]	Effervescent
[ ]	Vibrant

Which is not a type of plate boundary?

[ ]	Collision
[ ]	Constructive
[ ]	Destructive
[ ]	Distinctive

An earthquake sends out what type of waves?

[ ]	Ascorbic
[ ]	Pelagic
[ ]	Seismic
[ ]	Semitic

What kind of volcanic 'flow' includes hot gas, ash and lava?

[ ]	Hypocaustic
[ ]	Panasonic
[ ]	Pyroclastic
[ ]	Pyrotechnic

10.

What is the underground point where an earthquake starts?

[ ]	Focus
[ ]	Genesis
[ ]	Hub
[ ]	Origin

Science: Middle School: Grades 6, 7 and 8 Quiz - Earthquakes and Volcanoes 3 (Answers)

Earthquakes on the seabed can cause what?

[ ]	Origamis
[ ]	Toonarmies
[x]	Tsunamis
[ ]	Typhoons

They are huge tidal waves - tsunami means 'harbor wave' in Japanese

The volcano that erupted in Washington state in 1980 was Mount what?

[x]	St Helens
[ ]	St James
[ ]	St Neots
[ ]	St Swithins

What word describes the plates of the earth's crust?

[ ]	Platonic
[ ]	Subsonic
[ ]	Technotronic
[x]	Tectonic

Movement of plates causes 'quakes and eruptions