Volcanoes & Earthquakes

What is an epicenter? 

• Where an earthquake started
• The surface right above where an earthquake started 

What is a convergent boundary?

• When two plates move away from each other.
• When two plates move toward each other.

What is a fault?

• A crack in a plate.
• Where two plates move toward each other.

The epicenter of an earthquake is

• The point below the surface where rock begins to break and the first motion occurs
• The seismic station closest to the earthquake
• The place where the greatest damage occurs
• The point on the surface directly above the focus

An instrument that detects and measures earthquakes is a 

• seismogram
• focus seismic map
• focus
• seismograph 

Most earthquakes happen along the _________________. 

• coast
• faults
• desert
• directions

Earthquakes under the water can cause _________________________________.

• tornadoes
• tsunamis
• lightening
• hailstorms

Seismology

• Branch of science that studies earthquakes 
• Earthquakes 
• The sudden return to elastically deformed rock to its original shape. 
• Focus 

This earthquake is......?

• Convergent
• Transform
• Divergent
• Rift Zone

This earthquake is......?

• Convergent
• Transform
• Divergent
• Rift Zone