Rocking and Rolling Comprehension
  • 1. Cracks in the block mountains are called _____.
A) humps
B) plates
C) bumps
D) faults
  • 2. How hot is the center of the earth?
A) 900 degrees F
B) 9,000 degrees F
C) 9 degrees F
D) 90 degrees F
  • 3. The outermost layer of the earth is the crust. What is the next layer called?
A) mantle
B) outer core
C) plate
D) inner core
  • 4. What is the magma like?
A) the back of an elephant
B) an exploding bomb
C) gooey oatmeal
D) a jigsaw puzzle
  • 5. Which sentence tells something true about the earth?
A) There are no mountains under the ocean.
B) The earth's crust is made of metal.
C) The earth's plates have drifted apart.
D) People have dug to the center of the earth.
  • 6. An earthquake is cause by ______.
A) outer layers of the earth pressing down on the inner core
B) a huge wave traveling miles through the ocean
C) a place underground breaking away from another plate
D) magma forcing the earth's crust into a dome
  • 7. The shocks from an earthquake _______.
A) work outward like ripples from a stone thrown in a lake
B) shoot up like flames from a fire
C) build up a wall of mud sliding into a building
D) go around in circles like a ball at the end of a string
  • 8. How many earthquakes cause damage?
A) most of them
B) a few of them
C) all of them
D) none of them
  • 9. All of the following are types of mountains except_________.
A) ridge
B) fold
C) block
D) dome
  • 10. Mount Everest will grow taller because ______.
A) magma will bulge up under the crust and cause a bump
B) it sits on cracks in a plate
C) India continues to push northward
D) wind will shape huge ridges
  • 11. The author compares the power of wind erosion to that of ____.
A) sandpaper
B) an explosion
C) a blizzard
D) a flood
  • 12. 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
  • 13. Why is there a National Disaster Prevention Day every year in Japan?
  • 14. What occurs when an earthquake happens under land? under water?
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