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Earthquake Review

Authored by Joshua Lambert

Science

6th - 8th Grade

NGSS covered

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the shaking of the Earth’s crust caused by a release of energy?

Earthquake
Epicenter
Fault
Plate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

What is a break in the lithosphere along which movement in an earthquake has first occurred?

Earthquake
Epicenter
Fault
Focus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which type of wave is the first to arrive after an earthquake occurs?

P Wave
Rayleigh Wave
S Wave
Shear Wave

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

P Waves can move through which of the following?

Gas
Liquid
Solid
All of these

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is an instrument that detects and records waves produced by earthquakes? (This piece of equipment can measure the magnitude of an earthquake.)

Epicenter
Fault
Seismogram
Seismograph

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is the measure of the amount of energy released in an earthquake?

Earthquake
Epicenter
Magnitude
Seismogram

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which scale rates earthquakes based on the amount of damage done?

Mercalli Scale
Richter Scale
Seismogram Scale
Bernoulli Scale

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