Earthquakes

Can people cause earthquakes?

• Yes

• No

• No one knows

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What is the scale used to rate the strengths of earthquakes?

• Fujita scale

• Richter scale

• Damage scale

• NASA scale

What causes earthquakes?

• Millions of people jumping at once

• The earth rotating

• Tectonic Plates moving apart, colliding together, and sliding past.

• The faults

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What are earthquakes?

• The shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface

• Masses of earth sliding down cliffs or mountains

• A rotating column of air causing mass destruction

• A gigantic wave

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What does destruction mean?

• the condition of being wrecked

• distressing feelings after shock

• noisy behavior in a public place

• the feeling of being let down

Earthquakes occur along cracks in the earth called...

• ravines

• wrinkles

• valleys

• faults

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A tsunami is...

• Ms. Adams Starbucks order

• a gentle breeze from the ocean

• the epicenter of an earthquake

• destructive ocean waves caused by an earthquake

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What are the effects of earthquakes?

• Building and bridge destruction

• Landslides

• Fires

• Tsunamis

• Avalanches

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An instrument used to measure and record the force of an Earthquake is called...

• Tsunami

• Richter Scale

• Seismograph

• Cross Bracing

What are ways that structural engineers design buildings to make them stronger during earthquakes?

• Cross-Bracing

• Tapered Geometry

• Concrete

• Base Isolation

• Bendy building material

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