Earthquakes

What is a sudden shaking of the Earth caused by shifting in the Earth's crust?

• Tornado

• Earthquake

• Tsunami

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What is the name of the scale that rates Earthquakes?

• Scale

• Seismograph

• Richter Scale

What causes Earthquakes?

• Built up energy

• lava

• erosion

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What is the location deep inside the Earth where an earthquake began called?

• point zero

• epicenter

• focus

True or false, Earthquakes can be caused by tsunamis?

• true

• false

True or false, the epicenter of an earthquake is directly below the focus?

• true

• false

What are THREE things you would want to have in case of an earthquake?

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What is a crack within Earth’s rocky crust, where rock has been fractured called?

• fault

• epicenter

• focus

Which type of waves travel along the ground, outward from the earthquake’s epicenter?

• primary waves

• secondary waves

• surface waves

What are the plates called that move during an earthquake?

• dinner plates

• tectonic plates

• bionic plates

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3