Earthquakes Study Jams

What are the sheets of rock called that make up the top outer crust of the Earth?

• plates

• continents

• waves

• shifts

What causes the continental plates to move?

• cracks in the plates made by seismometers

• really big ocean waves pushing

• movement from the hot lower layers of earth

• seismic moment and intensity

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What is a crack in the Earth’s surface called?

• an intensity

• a fault

• a seismometer

• a layer

What are scientists who study earthquakes called?

• seismologists

• seismographs

• seismic monitors

• seismometers

What does the Richter Scale measure?

• the number of earthquakes

• the size of earthquakes

• the height of volcanoes

• the depth of faults

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What is seismic moment?

• the day and time when an earthquake begins

• the amount of earthquakes that happen each year

• the center of where an earthquake starts

• the amount of energy released by an earthquake

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What forms when two of Earth’s plates pull apart?

• a mountain

• a volcano

• a layer

• a crust

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