Earthquakes

Which feature is created by all 3 types of plate boundaries.

• Earthquakes

• Mountains

• Subduction Zones

• Volcanoes

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What is the measure of the amount of ground shaking during an earthquake?

• Intensity

• Epicenter

• Magnitude

• Seismogram

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

• P waves

• S waves

• Surface waves

• Tsunami waves

The most destructive type of wave is a 

• P-wave
• S-wave
• Surface wave
• transverse wave

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

How does the Richter Magnitude Scale calculate its measurements?

• Eyewitnesses

• Amount of damage caused

• The amount of time the earthquake lasted

• The strength of the seismic waves recorded by a seismograph machine.

All of the following are reasons some buildings are damaged more than others during an earthquake EXCEPT....

• The strength of the building materials.

• How close the building was to the earthquake's epicenter.

• What type of soil the building sat on.

• The people living inside of the building.

• The design of the building.

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What does a seismograph measure?

• The amount of oil and gas underground.

• The amount of damage an earthquake causes.

• The temperature of the earth's core.

• The amount of shaking of the crust.

How does triangulation show the location of the epicenter of an earthquake?

• By scientist looking around to see where the most damage was created.

• By making triangles on a map.

• By calculating the difference between the P and S waves in arrival times and determining the distances from at least 3 seismic stations.

• By drawing 3 or more random sized circles on a map to see where they intersect.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

crack with movement

• focus

• joint

• fault

• epicenter

back and forth motion

• S-wave

• P-wave

• elastic rebounding

• L-wave

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