CW/HW: Earthquake Questions

What kind of faultline causes plates to rub against each other in the opposite direction?

• Strike-slip

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Ocean to Ocean

What causes an earthquake?

• Pollution
• The earth's rotation
• Two plates rubbing against eachother
• Gravity

A ____________ measures how strong an earthquake is.

• plate

• seismometer

• tsunami

• volcano

This earthquake had a ____________ _________________.

• evidence

• big magnitude

• small magnitude

• fossil

The ___________ _____________ is used to measure how big an earthquake is. It ranges from 0 - 9. (although there have been earthquakes with larger values than 9.0)

• tsunami

• Richter Scale

• evidence and theory

• shaking

the point inside Earth where an earthquake begins

• seismograph

• seismogram

• epicenter

• focus

the place on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's starting point

• seismograph

• seismogram

• epicenter

• focus

A scientist draws a circle around each of three seismograph stations to find what?

• a seismogram

• an earthquake's epicenter

• S waves

• P waves

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

• P waves
• S waves

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

What is a break in the lithosphere along which movement in an earthquake has first occurred?

• Earthquake
• Epicenter
• Fault
• Focus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2