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Grade 9 Tectonics
Earthquake hazards include which of the following?
  1. building collapse
  2. fire
  3. liquefaction
  4. all of the above
Grade 9 Tectonics
Where is the 'Ring of Fire" located?
  1. at the State Fair of Texas
  2. in the Arizona Desert
  3. at the plate boundaries of India and Asia
  4. at the plate boundaries of the Pacific Ocean
Grade 9 Tectonics
The focus is the center of an earthquake.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 9 Tectonics
The Andes Mountain Range and Andean Volcanic Belt line the western side of South America. Based on this information and the map, which statement best describes the plate boundary interaction along the west coast of South America?
Tectonic Plates With Labels
  1. The Nazca plate is subducting under the South American plate.
  2. The South American plate is subducting under the Nazca plate.
  3. The Nazca plate and South American plate interact along a transform boundary.
  4. The South American plate and Nazca plate interact along a divergent boundary.
Grade 9 Tectonics
Which scientist from the 1960s is credited with proposing the theory of seafloor spreading?
  1. Alfred Wegener
  2. Albert Einstein
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Harry Hess
Grade 9 Tectonics
What type of boundary and strain that would be associated with a strike-slip fault?
  1. shear and compression
  2. shear and transform
  3. compression and transform
  4. tension and divergent
Grade 9 Tectonics
The Indian Plate pushing against the Eurasian Plate is the reason why we have
  1. the European Alps.
  2. the Himalayas.
  3. the Rocky Mountains.
  4. the Sierra Nevada Range.
Grade 9 Tectonics
Of the answers below, which one is evidence of seafloor spreading?
  1. puzzle like fit of the continents
  2. magnetic reversal evident at mid-ocean ridges
  3. fossil evidence found in South America and Africa
  4. climate clues
Grade 9 Tectonics
What happens to the velocities of P and S waves as both travel through denser materials?
  1. stay constant.
  2. decrease.
  3. reverse.
  4. increase.
Grade 9 Tectonics
Which type of stress will be found along a convergent boundary?
  1. shear
  2. strain
  3. compression
  4. tension
Grade 9 Tectonics
What type of boundary would be found along a strike-slip fault?
  1. transform
  2. reverse
  3. convergent
  4. divergent
Grade 9 Tectonics
Energy waves that produce an earthquake begin at which location on or within Earth?
  1. the epicenter
  2. the seismic gap
  3. the focus
  4. the shadow zone
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