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DISTRICT ASSESSMENT TEST #1
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13.
Describe a
1. Where do volcanoes
transform, divergent and
occur around the world?
convergent boundary.
2. Describe the steps and
14.
What happens
information needed to
during a volcanic
find the Epicenter of an
eruption?
Earthquake.
15.
What evidence was
3. What happens to the wild
used to determine the
life and habitats around a
earth has layers and a
volcano once it erupts?
solid iron core?
4. What is a mid ocean
16.
What is convection
ridge, draw it and tell me
and how does it heat up
the place where the
lava?
youngest, newest rock
17.
What moves the
and magma form/.
lithospheric plates?
5. What were the evidences
18.
What is the theory
that the Earth’s
of plate tectonics?
continents were once
19.
What is the theory
stuck together?
of continental drift, what
6. How do mountains like
evidences prove the
the Sierra Nevada form?
theory to be true?
7. Why do floods occur after
a forest fire?
8. What is the relationship
between volcanoes and
tectonic plates?
9. Describe the Earth’s
mantle, core and crust.
10.
Draw the movement
of water as it is heated.
(it is the same movement
of magma inside the
Earth)
11.
What is a tectonic
plate and what do they
cause to happen?
12.
Why is the Earth
always changing the way
it looks?