
Earthquakes
Authored by Natalie Broome
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3rd - 6th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
More than 10,000 earthquakes occur
every minute
every day
every month
every year
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
NGSS.MS-ESS3-2
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Any place the Earth's crust can move is called a
fault
crevice
plates
mantle
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
NGSS.MS-ESS2-2
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The focus (or hypocenter) is the place where energy is released at a fault and is the starting point of an earthquake.
True
False
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS3-2
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What type of waves are released from earthquakes?
plate
seismic
mantle
light
Tags
NGSS.MS-PS4-2
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What are scientists who study earthquakes called?
quakeologists
platoligists
seismologists
shakeologists
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The location on earth's surface directly above the focus, the place where the earthquake starts.
epicenter
richter
boundary
plate
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of these are instruments used to study earthquakes?
seismometer
seismograph
seismogram
all of these
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