EARTHQUAKES PREP

What types of waves are released from an earthquake?

• Energy Waves
• Sonic Waves
• Seismic Waves

What is the violent shaking of Earth's crust as built-up energy is released.

• earthquake
• epicenter
• fault
• focus

What do you call the crack in Earth's surface along which movement takes place?

• earthquake
• epicenter
• fault
• focus

Name the point underground where the faulting in an earthquake occurs.

• earthquake
• epicenter
• fault
• focus

Where do many earthquakes and volcanoes occur along the Pacific Ocean?

• along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
• along the Nazca Plate
• along the Ring of Fire
• near India

Which earthquake wave is the most destructive?

• P waves
• S waves
• surface waves
• tsunami waves

What is the name of the instrument used to measure the waves of an earthquake?

• Richter Scale
• Octograph
• Seismograph
• Fault detecor

Earthquakes occur along these.

• bedrock
• sandstone piles
• plate boundaries
• equatorial lines

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

• Subdermal

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

• P waves
• S waves