Earthquakes

What is the vocabulary word for the movement on the surface of the Earth resulting from underground movement between two plates?

• An Earthquake
• Shaking Earth
• Volcano

What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?

• Core
• Mantle
• Crust

What are the puzzle pieces of the Earth's surface called?

• Tectonic plates
• Puzzles
• Earthquakes

What occurs when two plates move, bump or slide past each other?

• An Earthquake
• Nothing
• Movement

What is the vocabulary word for the line where two tectonic plates move past each other?

• Plate Line
• Fault Line
• Puzzle Line

What are the two types of earthquake waves?

• P and S waves
• Surface and Underground waves
• Fast and Slow waves

The place where an earthquake originates inside the Earth's surface is called...

• Epicenter
• Hypocenter (focus)
• Underground
• Crust

The place where the earthquake is felt on the Earth's surface is called...

• Epicenter
• Hypocenter (focus)
• Surface
• Crust

What are the three types of plate boundaries?

• Transform, Convergent, Divergent
• Apart, Together, Slide
• Slide, Pull away, Push together

What is the instrument used to measure earthquakes?

• Seismograph
• Seisologist
• Scale