Earthquakes

The point underground where the first movement occurs during an earthquake is the...

• Epicenter

• Focus

• Fault

• Plate

The point on the Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake is the...

• 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 an instrument that detects and records seismic waves produced by earthquakes? (It can measure the magnitude of an earthquake.)

• Epicenter

• Fault

• Seismogram

• Seismograph

Which scale measures the intensity of the ground movement?

• Mercalli Scale
• Richter Scale
• Seismogram Scale
• Bernoulli Scale

What is a large ocean wave that results from an underwater earthquake, landslide, or volcanic eruption?

• Aftershock
• Liquefaction
• Seismic Gap
• Tsunami

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Many earthquakes happen along the borders of...

• Countries
• Tectonic Plates
• Climate Zones
• None of the above.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Fault block mountains are created when a string of what occurs?

• normal faults
• reverse faults
• strike-slip faults
• folds

Which stress force pulls on the crust and stretches rock?

• tension
• compression
• shearing
• folding

The rating system that estimates the total energy released by an earthquake is called the

• Richter scale

• Moment Magnitude scale

• Mercalli scale

• seismograph