SCI8 2025 Spring Final

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

• P waves
• S waves
• Surface Waves
• Fans doing "the wave" at Comerica Park

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

What are the waves called that come from an earthquake?

• Thunder
• Seismic 
• Surfing 
• Cosmic

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

Someone who studies earthquakes is known as a:

• Seismogram

• Richter Scale

• Seismologist

• Seismology

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The sudden return of elastically deformed rock to its undeformed shape is called

• deformation

• elastic rebound

• seismic waves

• seismology

The bending, tilting, and breaking of the Earth's crust; the change in the shape of rock in response to stress is called

• seismology

• deformation

• seismic waves

• elastic rebond

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

This type of fault is....

• normal fault

• reverse fault

• strike-slip fault

• teacher's fault

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which Plate Boundary does the picture illustrate?

• Divergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

• Supersonic

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The most destructive wave of an earthquake is . . . .

• P wave
• Surface wave
• S wave
• Tsunami

What is the distance between the seismic station and an earthquake epicenter, if the first S wave arrives 4.0 minutes after the first P wave?

• 1500 kilometers
• 3000 kilometers
• 2500 kilometers
• 2000 kilometers

Using the Moment Magnitude, or Richter Scale, approximately how much more energy is released in a magnitude 6 earthquake compared to magnitude 5 quake?

• 1x 
• 32x 
• 100x 
• 14x

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NGSS.MS-PS3-5