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Performance Assessment

Authored by Jorge Rodriguez

Science

10th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The epicenter of an earthquake is

The point below the surface where rock begins to break and the first motion occurs.

The seismic station closest to the earthquake.

The place where the greatest damage occurs.

The point on the surface directly above the focus.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

An instrument that detects and measures earthquakes is a 

seismogram
focus seismic map
focus
seismograph 

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

P-wave 

The center of a earthquake. 
Also know as shear or secondary wave. 
Always the first to arrive;  seismic wave that causes particles of rock to move in back-and-forth direction
Hilbert

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

Primary (P) Waves can pass through...

solids only

liquids only

gases only

solids, liquids, and gases

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

The point where the earthquake begins within the Earth.

epicenter

fault

focus

seismic waves

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Pyroclastic material forms when

magma explodes into the air and travels down the mountain very fast

lava flows calmly from a crack in the Earth´s crust

magma remains underground too long

lava flows underwater

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

One major belt of volcanoes that surrounds the Pacific Ocean

Ring of Fire

Ring of Asia

Ring o' earthquakes

Ring a ding ding

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