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Earthquakes and Volcanoes Study Guide
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1. True or False.... Florida sits on the caribbean plate

2. True or False.... Magma is lava that has reached Earth's surface

3. What is it called when a tectonic plate sinks below another tectonic plate?

4. Continental crust is denser than oceanic crust

5. How did the studies of fossils support the idea of Pangea?

6. Earthquakes often occur at subduction zones

7. What is responsible for the movement of tectonic plates?

8. What is the ring of fire?

9. Why are there very few earthquakes in Florida?

10. At subduction zones, (Blank) can form and ( blank) is destroyed.

11. What happens when a continental plate crashes into an oceanic plate?

12. What is Alfred Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift.

13. Characteristics of oceanic crust:

14. Volcanoes that contain magma with more gas have more

15. A convection current is...

16. What happens when a continental. plate crashes into another continental plate?

17. What are the characteristics of continental crust:

18. What are the two things that can happen at convergent boundaries??

19. At transform boundaries, how do plates move?

20. What causes earthquakes to happen?

21. True or False.... Tsunamies can be caused by the eruptions of volcanoes

22. True or False.... In the United States, the highest risk of earthquakes is on the East coast.

23. The Richter Scale measure the (Blank) of an earthquake

24. In between earthquakes, energy builds up between the two plates. This energy is called.....

25. True or False.... Energy from an earthquake travels as transverse waves