Download 5th Grade Chapter 1 “QUIZ ME” Questions

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Lesson 1 Questions
1. LIST What are the five categories into which
mountains are classified?
2. DESCRIBE How does a fold mountain form?
3. CONTRAST How is the formation of a faultblock mountain different from the
formation of fold mountains?
4. INFER Why is a mountain with sharp jagged
peaks probably younger than a mountain
with rounded peaks?
5. DESCRIBE What is the connection between
dome mountains and plate boundaries?
6. SEQUENCE What are the steps in the
formation of a mid-ocean ridge?
7. RECALL How did the Catskill Mountains
form?
8. GENERALIZE How are erosion mountains
different from other types of mountains?
9. CLASSIFY How are dome mountains
different from other types of mountains?
10. LOCATE Where could you go in California to
find volcanic mountains?
11. SYNTHESIZE Why do the Coastal Ranges
include pieces of the ocean floor?
Lesson 2 Questions
1. RECALL Which type of fault occurs where
two tectonic plates move apart from each
other?
2. EXPLAIN What do faults have to do with
earthquakes?
3. HYPOTHESIZE If a strike-slip fault often
moves a little bit, is the fault more likely or
less likely to be the site of a destructive
earthquake than a fault that slips farther
less often? Explain.
4. NAME Which waves formed by an
earthquake travel the fastest?
5. COMPARE Compare the movement of two
types of body waves.
Mountains, Earthquakes,
and Volcanoes
6. EVALUATE How are seismic waves similar to
ripples from a stone dropped into water?
7. CAUSE AND EFFECT What happens when
stress builds up along a fault?
8. SUMMARIZE How is the movement of
surface waves different from the movement
of both P-waves and S-waves?
9. CONCLUDE Where in California would most
earthquakes occur?
10. EVALUATE Why do L-waves generally cause
the most extensive damage?
11. CAUSE AND EFFECT Compare the surface
movements caused by P-waves and Swaves.
12. IDENTIFY What do scientists use to measure
the ground motion during earthquakes?
13. SEQUENCE In what order are waves
recorded on a seismogram?
14. DEDUCE Why is the drum of a seismograph
attached to the bedrock of the Earth’s
surface?
15. INFER Why is the network of instruments
that monitors earthquakes very extensive in
California?
Lesson 3 Questions
1. EXPLAIN If you know the focus of an
earthquake, how can you find its epicenter?
2. ANALYZE How does the difference of the
speed of P-waves and S-waves help
scientists determine the earthquakes
epicenter?
3. RECALL What scale is used for earthquake
intensity?
4. EVALUATE Which is a more precise way to
measure the strength of an earthquake—
intensity or magnitude? Why do you think
so?
5. LIST What are some of the effects of
earthquakes?
6th Grade Chapter 4 “QUIZ ME” Questions
Lesson 3 Questions Continued….
6. IDENTIFY Where is earthquake shaking the
strongest?
7. APPLY Someone builds a home on land that
was reclaimed from a bay with soil and rock
landfill. She thinks her home is safer from
earthquakes than a friend’s home that is
several miles closer to a fault. Is she
correct? Why?
8. MAIN IDEA What affects the damage done
by an earthquake?
9. GIVE AN EXAMPLE What is one way to
make a house safer in an earthquake?
10. EXPLAIN Why was the 1906 San Francisco
earthquake more damaging than the 1989
Loma Prieta quake?
11. ANALYZE Why is it a bad idea to build a
house of bricks in an earthquake prone
area?
12. EVALUATE Will well-built structures that sit
on stable bedrock at an epicenter suffer any
damage from an earthquake?
13. RECALL What is a tsunami?
14. SUMMARIZE How are tsunamis detected?
15. MAIN IDEA What causes a tsunami?
Lesson 4 Questions
1. RECALL What types of materials come from
a volcano during an eruption?
2. COMPARE What is the difference between
magma and lava?
3. INFER Why does melted magma rise
through the crust to the surface at
convergent plate boundaries?
4. DESCRIBE What causes explosive volcanic
eruptions?
Mountains, Earthquakes,
and Volcanoes
5. CONTRAST How are cinder cone volcanoes
different from other types of volcanoes?
6. TELL WHY Why would you expect a gentle
eruption from a volcano with thin lava?
7. COMPARE AND CONTRAST Why do
composite volcanoes erupt more violently
than shield volcanoes?
8. NAME What is another name for a
composite volcano?
9. IDENTIFY A volcano is composed almost
entirely of lava. It is large, but its sides
slope very gently, and it does not erupt
explosively. What types of volcano is this?
10. CLASSIFY What characteristics of a volcano
would you use to classify it?
11. CATEGORIZE AND CLASSIFY During Mount
Pinatubo’s last eruption in the Philippines, it
exploded violently, sending lava down its
sides and ash into the air. What type of
volcano do you think this is?
12. EXPLAIN What happened to the town of
Pompeii in A.D. 79?
13. EVALUATE How did the 1980 eruption of
Mount Saint Helens change the land around
it?
14. GENERALIZE Can a dormant volcano be a
threat to land and people around it?
15. DESCRIBE What is the connection between
Mount Saint Helens in Washington and
California volcanoes?
16. APPLY Is Lassen Peak extinct or dormant?
17. EVALUATE Why didn’t Lassen Peak’s last
eruption affect many people?
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Lesson 4 Questions Continued….
18. APPLY If a volcano erupted on a windy day,
how might the direction of the wind affect
the decision about which areas people must
leave or evacuate?
19. RECALL How do volcanoes form at hot
spots?
20. SUMMAERIZE How did the Hawaiian Islands
grow as a chain of several islands?
21. PREDICT Will Loihi, the new island forming
southeast of Hawaii, be the last island in the
Hawaiian Islands chain?
Mountains, Earthquakes,
and Volcanoes