On a separate sheet of paper, write the answers to these questions.

1. What is an earthquake?

2. What are the types of plates that cause earthquakes?

3. Many strong earthquake are cause by ___________?

    a. plates sliding pass each other                                              

    b. lava flowing down the side of an volcano

    c. plates spreading apart

d. hot magma coming from an earthquake

4. Many earthquakes occur on what boundaries?

5. Why do you think we have earthquakes?

6. Who invented the scale used to measure the size of earthquakes?

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