Folding, Faulting and Earthquakes

Pick the odd one out/

• Subduction

• Sea floor spreading

• Deep ocean trench

• Fold mountains

What does LDCs stand for

• Little Developed Countries

• Lower Developing Cities

• Less Dependent Countries

• Less Developed Countries

This city in New Zealand was destroyed by liquefaction after an earthquake in 2011.

• Wellington

• Samoa

• Queensland

• Christchurch

How many levels are there to the Mercalli scale.

• 12

• 10

• 8

• 11

The study of this gas can help us predict earthquake activity.

• Carbon Monoxide

• Futon

• Radon

• Sulpher Dioxide

Which is a category of earthquake?

• Strong

• Intermediate

• Seismic

• Magnitude

This is the slowest wave picked up by the seismograph

• P Wave

• S Wave

• Surface Wave

Shallow earthquakes happen at depths up to....

• 10km

• 25km

• 80km

• 120km

The African Rift Valley is an example of a ...

• Horst

• Block mountain

• Transform plate boundary

• Graben

The steep sides of the African rift valley are called...

• scarps

• synclines

• limbs

• aretes