Whole lotta shakin goin on!

What is the shaking of the Earth’s crust caused by movement on a fault?

• Earthquake

• Epicenter

• Fault

• Plate

How many kinds of faults are there?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

What is a crack or break in the crust caused by pressure and stress that allows movement of the rock layers?

• Earthquake

• Epicenter

• Fault

• Focus

Where do most earthquakes happen?

• at hotspots

• in the center of continental plates

• at plate boundaries

• in the mountains

What is the point on a fault where the first movement occurs during an earthquake?

• Epicenter

• Focus

• Fault

• Plate

What is the point on the Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake?

• Epicenter

• Fault

• Hypocenter

• Tremor

What type of fault happens at a convergent boundary?

• strike-slip

• reverse

• normal

• transform

When rock layers slide past each other what type of fault occurs?

• strike- slip

• reverse

• normal

• convergent

A normal fault occurs at what kind of boundary?

• convergent

• divergent

• strike- slip

• transform

The Earth's crust is broken into pieces called

• ocean basins

• mountain ranges

• tectonic plates

• volcanoes