Earthquakes

What is an epicenter? 

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

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

• P waves
• S waves

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

Second waves to arrive that cause earthquakes

• P waves
• S waves
• Surface waves

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

• Earthquake
• Epicenter
• Fault
• Plate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Which stress force pulls on the crust and stretches rock?

• tension
• compression
• shearing
• folding

Stress that pushes a mass of rock in two opposite directions is called

• deformation
• tension
• compression
• shearing

Tension causes what type of fault to form?

• folds
• reverse fault
• strike slip fault
• normal fault

At what plate boundary will a strike slip fault be found?

• divergent
• transform
• convergent
• all of them

What type of stress squeezes crust together?

• Tension

• Compression

• Shearing

• None of the above

In a___________fault, the hanging wall moves up

• Normal

• Reverse

• Strike Slip