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Rocking and Rolling Comprehension
Contribució de: Goers
(Autor original: Moore)
  • 1. The molten material beneath the earth's crust is _________________.
A) magma
B) peak
C) epicenter
D) range
  • 2. When I help with frosting the cookies, I make sure icing is placed right up to the ________________ of each cookie.
A) edges
B) coast
C) range
D) magma
  • 3. Do you know which mountain _____________ is the longest in the world?
A) coast
B) coast
C) range
D) epicenter
  • 4. During a recent earthquake, our town was only ten miles north of the earthquake's _________________.
A) magma
B) range
C) plates
D) epicenter
  • 5. There are many beautiful beaches along the Florida ____________.
A) coast
B) peak
C) magma
D) epicenter
  • 6. Mount McKinley is the highest mountain ___________ in North America.
A) magma
B) peak
C) coast
D) edges
  • 7. Cracks in the block mountains are called _____.
A) bumps
B) faults
C) plates
D) humps
  • 8. How hot is the center of the earth?
A) 9,000 degrees F
B) 900 degrees F
C) 9 degrees F
D) 90 degrees F
  • 9. The outermost layer of the earth is the crust. What is the next layer called?
A) outer core
B) inner core
C) plate
D) mantle
  • 10. What is the magma like?
A) a jigsaw puzzle
B) the back of an elephant
C) an exploding bomb
D) gooey oatmeal
  • 11. Which sentence tells something true about the earth?
A) There are no mountains under the ocean.
B) The earth's plates have drifted apart.
C) People have dug to the center of the earth.
D) The earth's crust is made of metal.
  • 12. An earthquake is cause by ______.
A) outer layers of the earth pressing down on the inner core
B) magma forcing the earth's crust into a dome
C) a huge wave traveling miles through the ocean
D) a place underground breaking away from another plate
  • 13. The shocks from an earthquake _______.
A) work outward like ripples from a stone thrown in a lake
B) go around in circles like a ball at the end of a string
C) shoot up like flames from a fire
D) build up a wall of mud sliding into a building
  • 14. How many earthquakes cause damage?
A) none of them
B) a few of them
C) all of them
D) most of them
  • 15. All of the following are types of mountains except_________.
A) fold
B) dome
C) block
D) ridge
  • 16. Mount Everest will grow taller because ______.
A) wind will shape huge ridges
B) magma will bulge up under the crust and cause a bump
C) India continues to push northward
D) it sits on a crack
  • 17. The author compares the power of wind erosion to that of ____.
A) an explosion
B) sandpaper
C) a blizzard
D) a flood
  • 18. Why did the author write this article?
A) to scare people
B) to warn people about dangerous places to live
C) to explain weather
D) to explain what is happening to the earth
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