Earthquakes

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

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

• Epicenter

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• Underground

• Crust

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

• Epicenter

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• Surface

• Crust

What are the three types of plate boundaries in which earthquakes originate from?

• Transform, Convergent, Divergent

• Apart, Together, Slide

• Slide, Pull away, Push together

What is the instrument used to measure earthquakes?

• Seismograph
• Seisologist
• Scale

Which travels fastest, always being the first detected by seismic stations?

• P waves
• S waves

A tracing of earthquake motion that is created by a seismograph. This can be on a huge sheet of paper, shows P-waves

• Seismogram

• Seismic wave

• Carrollton

• Deformed

Seismology

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