WorksheetChapter 6 Earthquakes and Volcanoes Test
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This 6th grade science test includes 37 questions on earthquakes and volcanoes, combining fill-in-the-blank items (with word bank) and short-answer prompts. Topics covered include stress and faults, seismic waves, the Richter and Mercalli scales, volcanic structures, and plate-tectonics formation. Suitable for chapter review or unit assessment in an earth science course.
Word Bank
- anticline
- compression
- crater
- dormant
- earthquake
- epicenter
- extinct
- footwall
- Friction
- hanging wall
- hot spot
- lava
- lava flow
- Magma
- magma chamber
- magnitude
- Mercalli scale
- moment magnitude scale
- normal fault
- P waves
- pipe
- plateau
- pyroclastic flow
- reverse fault
- Richter scale
- Ring of Fire
- S waves
- seismogram
- seismograph
- shearing
- stress
- strike-slip fault
- Surface waves
- syncline
- tension
- vent
- volcano
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