Earthquakes

Which type of wave is the first to arrive after an earthquake occurs?

• P Wave
• Rayleigh Wave
• S Wave
• Shear Wave

P Waves can move through which of the following?

• Gas
• Liquid
• Solid
• All of these

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

What is an instrument that detects and records waves produced by earthquakes? (This piece of equipment can measure the magnitude of an earthquake.)

• Epicenter
• Fault
• Seismogram
• Seismograph

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What is the measure of the amount of energy released in an earthquake?

• Earthquake
• Epicenter
• Magnitude
• Seismogram

What is the shaking of the Earth’s crust caused by a release of energy?

• Earthquake
• Epicenter
• Fault
• Plate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A type of fault where rocks on either side move past each other sideways is called:

• normal fault
• reverse fault
• strike-slip fault

How does a reverse fault form?

• The hanging wall moves upward relative to the footwall.
• Compression thrusts the fault into reverse.
• Blocks slide past each other.
• The hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall.

The hanging wall slides up and over the footwall is what kind of fault?

• strike-slip
• normal
• reverse

When the hanging wall slips downward below the footwall, what kind of fault is it?

• strike-slip
• normal
• reverse

Which of these boundaries/stresses/faults all correctly go together?  Choose all that apply.

• normal, divergent, tension
• reverse, convergent, shearing
• strike-slip, transform, compression

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1