Earthquakes Quiz

This is a large area of flat land elevated high above sea level.

• plateau

• mountain

• mesa

• canyon

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

This is a fold in a rock that bends upward into an arch.

• anticline

• syncline

• plateau

• mountain

Which type of stress force produces reverse faults?

• shearing

• tension

• compression

• deformation

In a strike-slip fault, the rocks on either side of the fault slip past each other sideways with little...

• noise

• shaking

• up-or-down motion

• movement

In a normal fault, the part of the fault that lies below the other part is called...

• hanging wall

• reverse fault

• footwall

• anticline

Which of the following can cause damage days or months after a large earthquake?

• the arrival of surface waves

• convection

• a tsunami

• an aftershock

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Stress that pushes a mass of rock in two opposite directions is called...

• shearing

• tension

• compression

• deformation

The point beneath Earth's surface where rock breaks under stress and triggers an earthquake is called the...

• syncline

• footwall

• epicenter

• focus

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The type of seismic waves that arrive at the surface first are called...

• S waves

• P waves

• Surface waves

• Mercalli waves

The rating system that estimates the total energy released by an earthquake is called...

• Richter scale

• moment magnitude scale

• mechanical seismograph scale

• Mercalli scale

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2