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WorksheetsEarthquakes- Bold Words
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 14mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
A force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume?
a)
stress
b)
focus
c)
friction
d)
fracture
2.
Strategy used to help a structure survive earthquakes by absorbing the energy of the quake?
a)
cushion
b)
footings
c)
compression
d)
base isolated building
3.
Stress that stretches rock so that it becomes thinner in the middle!
a)
tension
b)
compression
c)
sheear
d)
rubber-binder
4.
An earthquake that occurs after a larger one in the same area?
a)
strike-slip
b)
S Wave
c)
aftershock
aftershock
aftershock
d)
anticline
5.
The process by which an earthquake's violent movement suddenly turns loose soil into liquid mud!
a)
tsunami
tsunami
tsunami
b)
S Wave
c)
liquefaction
d)
syncline
6.
A force that opposed the motion of one surface as it moves across another surface?
a)
compression
b)
tension
c)
shear
d)
friction
7.
Stress that squeezes rock!
a)
tension
b)
compression
c)
shear
d)
boa constriction
8.
Stress that pushes masses of rock in opposite directions, in a sideways movement?
a)
shear
b)
compression
c)
tension
d)
constriction
9.
A type of fault where the hanging wall slides down...caused by tension.
a)
normal fault
b)
strike-slip fault
c)
reversynclinese fault
10.
The record of an earthquake's seismic waves produced by a seismograph?
a)
P Wave
b)
seismogram
c)
S Wave
d)
E.K.G.
11.
The block of rock that forms the upper half of a fault?
a)
hanging wall
hanging wall
hanging wall
b)
cliff wall
c)
fault
d)
reverse fault
12.
A scale that rates earthquakes by estimating the total energy released by an earthquake?
a)
Richter scale
b)
moment magnitude scale
c)
Mercalli scale
d)
ph scale
13.
The block of rock that forms the lower half of a fault?
a)
plateau
b)
hanging wall
c)
footwall
d)
focus
14.
A device that records ground movements caused by seismic waves as they move through Earth?
a)
Echograph
b)
GPS
c)
Tilt Meter
d)
seismograph
15.
A type of fault where the hanging wall slides upward...caused by compression.
a)
hanging wall
b)
strike-slip fault
strike-slip fault
strike-slip fault
c)
normal fault
d)
reverse fault
16.
A scale that rates Earthquake's magnitude based on the size of it's seismic waves?
a)
Richter Scale
b)
moment magnitude scale
c)
Mercalli scale
d)
Kelvin scale
17.
The measurement of an Earthquake's strength based on seismic waves and movement along faults?
a)
focus
b)
magnitude
c)
stress
d)
liquefatcion
18.
A scale that rates Earthquakes according to their intensity and how much damage they cause at a particular place!
a)
Mercalli scale
b)
Richter scale
c)
moment magnitude scale
d)
decibel scale
19.
A type of fault in which rocks on either side move past each other sideways with little up or down motion?
a)
strike-slip fault
b)
normal fault
c)
reverse fault
d)
plateau
20.
A type of seismic wave that forms when P waves and S waves reach Earth's surface?
a)
P wave
b)
S wave
c)
Surface wave
d)
tsunami wave
21.
A type of seismic wave that moves the ground up and down or side-to-side?
a)
P w ave
b)
S Wave
c)
surface wave
d)
tsunami wave
22.
A type of seismic wave that compresses and expands the ground?
a)
S wave
b)
P wave
c)
Tsunami wave
d)
shear
23.
The point of Earth's surface directly above an Earthquake?
a)
epicenter
b)
focus
c)
ground zero
d)
syncline
24.
The point beneath Earth's surface where rock breaks under stress causing an Earthquake?
a)
loci
b)
syncline
c)
epicenter
d)
focus
25.
The shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface?
a)
Earthquake
b)
tsunami
c)
hurricane
d)
mudslide
26.
A large area of flat land elevated high above sea level?
a)
penninsula
b)
island
c)
plateau
d)
mountain
27.
An upward fold in rock formed by compression of Earth's crust?
a)
anticline
b)
syncline
c)
normal fault
d)
fracture
28.
A downward fold in rock formed by compression in Earth's crust?
a)
anticline
b)
syncline
c)
fracture
d)
strike-slip fault
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