ES Midterm Review ch 1-2

What is a scientist that studies soil called?

• Pedologist

• Biologist

• Ichthyologist

Which system is the building resting on isolators that absorb the seismic energy

• fixed base

• base isolated

• energy dissipating

Which construction type system is on bedrock?

• fixed based system

• base system

• energy disspating device

The first waves recorded by a seismogram are

• P Waves

• S Waves

• Surface waves

Which waves travel the fastest?

• S Waves

• P Waves

• Surface Waves

Straight lines with only tiny deflections- indicates

• an earthquake is about to happen

• no earthquake is about to happen

• a tidal wave will occur

What are the slowest type of earthquake waves?

• P Waves

• Surface Waves

• S waves

Which belt contains the San Andreas Fault?

• Circum Pacific Belt

• Alpide Belt

• Atlantic Belt

The earthquake zone that stretches from North African mountains to Southern Europe and Asia and all the way to Indonesia

• Circum Pacific Belt

• Atlantic Belt

• Alpide Belt

The most active earthquake zone

• Atlantic Belt

• Circum Pacific Belt

• Mediterranean Belt