Final quiz

Q1. What is an earthquake?

• A. The sudden and brief period of intense ground shaking

• B. Where magma is erupted from the earth

• C. The movement of earth's plates creating new land

Q2. At which plate boundaries do you find earthquakes?

• A. Conservative and destructive

• B. Constructive and destructive

• C. All three plate boundary

Q3. Which regions shown above are high-risk earthquake zones?

• A. 1

• B. 1,2

• C. 1,2,3

Q4. What piece of equipment measures earthquakes?

• A. Seismometer

• B. Richter Scale

• C. Mercalli Scale

Q5. Intensity is measured by which of the followings?

• A. based on the damage caused by an earthquake

• B. measured in Richter scale

• C. measured in Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale

Q6. What is Magnitude?

• A. The amount of energy released at the focus

• B. Damage caused by the earthquake

• C. The amount of energy released at the epicentre

Q7. An earthquake can only occur where plate boundaries exist.

• True

• False

Q8. On earth's surface, directly above the location where an earthquake originates is called a(n):

• A. seismic waves

• B. focus

• C. epicenter

Q9. What are the range of richter scale can measure

• A. 1-7

• C. 1-8

• B. 1-9

Q10. How an earthquake is felt by others and the amount of damage an earthquake creates is determined by its:

• A. magnitude

• B. intensity

• C. duration of shaking