Natural Disasters - Earthquakes

What type of plate boundary is seen in the picture?

• Transform/ Conservative

• Convergent/ Destructive

• Divergent/ Constructive

A on the diagram illustrates ...

• The focus

• The epicenter

• The fault line

• The seismic waves

B on the diagram illustrates ...

• The focus

• The epicenter

• The fault line

• The seismic waves

C on the diagram illustrates ...

• The focus

• The epicenter

• The fault line

• The seismic waves

D on the diagram illustrates ...

• The focus

• The epicenter

• The fault line

• The seismic waves

When an earthquake occurs under a large body of water, what natural disaster is formed?

• Volcano

• Flooding

• Tsunami

• Underwater trench

I am used to measure seismic waves. I am called a

• a scale

• thermometer

• seismograph

• Vernier caliper

What is the name of the scale used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake

• Richter Scale

• Richer Scale

• Mercalli Scale

• Mercantile Scale