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Earthquakes

Authored by Sarah Schmidt

Science

5th - 7th Grade

NGSS covered

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Earthquakes
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

What is tension?

pulling apart

pushes together

slides past

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

What is compression?

Slides past

pulls apart

comes together

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

What is shearing?

Comes together

slides past

pulls apart

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

What is a plateau?

A large elevated area of land

land that is folded

land that has anticlines & synclines

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

What is an earthquake?

Shaking of earth's crust

the focus

the epicenter

a fault

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

What are P waves & how do they move?

the first to arrive, compress and expand

second waves, move side to side or up and down

waves on the surface, move like a wave

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

What are S waves & how do they move?

the first to arrive, compress and expand

second waves, move side to side or up and down

waves on the surface, move like a wave

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