Earthquakes

Seismology is

• Branch of science that studies earthquakes

• Earthquakes

• The sudden return to elastically deformed rock to its original shape.

• Focus

Smaller earthquakes that occur in the same area after a larger earthquake has occurred.

• aftershock
• liquefaction
• tsunami

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What type of fault is the San Andreas in California?

• Convergent

• Transform

• Optimus Prime

• Divergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

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

• Intensity

• Epicenter

• Magnitude

• Seismogram

Which scale rates earthquakes based on the amount of damage done?

• Mercalli Intensity Scale

• Richter Magnitude Scale

• Seismogram Shakey Scale

• Bernoulli Scale

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.

The most destructive type of wave is a

• P-wave

• S-wave

• Surface wave

• transverse wave

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

What type of seismic wave travels compressionally? (like an accordian)

• P wave

• S wave

• Surface

• None

What is a tracing of an earthquake's motion that is created by a seismometer?

• Seismograph

• Seismogram

• Seismologist

• Elastic Rebound

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Many earthquakes happen along the borders of...

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2