Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes and Volcanoes

QUIZ # 4 - Answer the following questions:

15. How is the distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes related to the different plates?
16. On the average how many earthquakes occur during a day?
17. What is the difference between the focus and the epicenter of an earthquake?
18. What types of earthquakes (in terms of depth and intensity) do we have in a divergent plate boundary?
19. What types of earthquakes (in terms of depth and intensity) do we have in a convergent plate boundary?
20. What types of earthquakes (in terms of depth and intensity) do we have in a transform plate boundary?
21. Which type of plate boundary is more likely asscociated with volcanism and subduction zones?
22. Which type of plate boundary will produce tall mountains with very little or no volcanism at all?
23. What is the explanation for volcanism in Hawaii? Is this type of volcanism associated with plate boundaries?

BACK TO THE MAIN PAGE

Brooklyn College - Geology Department