Grade 8 - Earthquakes

Which of the following will help predict the site of future earthquakes?

• Aftershock
• Liquefaction
• Seismic Gap
• Tsunami

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Which scale measures the intensity of the ground movement?

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

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

• Earthquake
• Epicenter
• Magnitude
• Seismogram

What is an instrument that detects and records waves produced by earthquakes? (This piece of equipment can measure the magnitude of an earthquake.)

• Epicenter
• Fault
• Seismogram
• Seismograph

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

S Waves can move through which of the following?

• Gas
• Liquid
• Solid
• All of these

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

P Waves can move through which of the following?

• Gas
• Liquid
• Solid
• All of these

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

What is another term for P Wave?

• Compression Wave
• Principal Wave
• Shear Wave
• Secondary Wave

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

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

• Epicenter
• Fault
• Hypocenter
• Tremor

Which of the following is NOT a cause of an earthquake?

• Collapse of Cavern
• Eruption of Volcano
• Lightning Strikes
• Moving Tectonic Plates

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

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

• Earthquake
• Epicenter
• Fault
• Plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2