Earthquakes

What type of fault is the San Andreas in California?

• Convergent

• Transform

• Optimus Prime

• Divergent

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What are the three types of plate boundaries?

• Transform, Convergent, Divergent
• Apart, Together, Slide
• Slide, Pull away, Push together

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What is the instrument used to measure earthquakes?

• Seismograph
• Seisologist
• Scale

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

• Earthquake
• Epicenter
• Fault
• Plate

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Where is the point on the Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake?

• Epicenter
• Fault
• Hypocenter
• Tremor

Which type of wave is the first to arrive after an earthquake occurs?

• P Wave
• Rayleigh Wave
• S Wave
• Shear Wave

What is the measure of the amount of energy released in an earthquake?

• Earthquake
• Epicenter
• Magnitude
• Seismogram

The focus of an earthquake is

• The point below Earth's surface where rock first breaks
• The closest seismic station
• The place where the greatest damage occurs
• A fault

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Earthquakes happen every day. Most are too small for humans to notice.

• True
• False

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Most earthquakes happen along the _________________. 

• coast
• faults
• desert
• directions

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