2/11 Friday Quiz Earth Quakes

What is the focus

• It is where I concentrate by vision

• The spot on a fault where an earthquake occurs

• The spot on the Earths crust directly above the rupture.

• Bruh... really you ask this question now 😒

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

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This is the spot on the Earth's surface directly above where the Earthquake occurred

• A focus

• An epicenter

• A fault

• A ring of fire

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Why do 90% of earthquakes considered "shallow focus"?

• They are warmer so they break easier.

• They are colder and more brittle so they soften up.

• Rocks are cooler and more brittle and grind past one another

• They are soft and have plasticity.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Why do earthquakes NOT occur below 650km?

• It is too hot and rocks bend instead of breaking

• Rocks crack and break but the magma acts like a muffler

• They do but we can't measure them

• Who cares what happens that deep!

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

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What time of zone exists around the Pacific Ring of Fire?

• Subduction Zone

• Divergent Zone

• Syncline

• Anticline

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

What happens along the outside edges of the Pacific Ring of Fire?

• Earthquakes and Volcanoes

• Volcanoes and Earth quakes

• Volcanoes and divergent zones

• Earthquakes and divergent zones

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of zone formed the Eurasian-Melanesian mountain belt (Himalayas)?

• A transform fault

• Divergent Zone

• Convergent Zone

• A syncline Zone

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

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