WorksheetsGeology
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Stress on a rock can be which of the following?
a)
Compression
b)
Tension
c)
Shearing
d)
All are causes of stress on a rock.
2.
Break/crack where movement occurs.
a)
Fold
b)
Epicenter
c)
Earthquake
d)
Fault
3.
True or False:A tsunami cannot travel across whole oceans.
a)
True
b)
False
4.
What is a Fold?
a)
Something you do to laundry.
b)
Collision of crust bends rock layers.
c)
"stress" on a rock
5.
Type of fault that causes crust to move alongside each other in opposite directions.
a)
Lateral/strike-slip fault
b)
Normal fault
c)
Reverse fault
6.
Stress on a rock can be caused by which of the following?
a)
Tension
b)
Shearing
c)
Compression
d)
All are correct.
7.
True or False:An Anticline Fold is youngest at its core.
a)
True
b)
False
8.
True or False:A syncline fold is youngest at it's core.
a)
True
b)
False
9.
What is an S wave?
a)
Secondary Wave that is weaker and moves side to side
b)
Secondary wave that is stronger and moves back and forth.
10.
True or False:Faults and Folds are the movement of tectonic plates against each other which causes the plates to fault and fold.
a)
Fault
b)
Both are correct
c)
Fold
11.
What is the Epicenter?
a)
The point on Earth's surface that is directly above thy hypocenter of focus.
b)
The point above an earthquake which gives the aftershock.
12.
What is a seismograph?
a)
Instrument used to measure a volcano.
b)
An instrument used to measure the shaking of an earthquake.
13.
What is an Earthquake?
a)
Shaking at earth's core caused by convergent boundaries.
b)
Shaking of Earth's crust caused by sudden release of energy.
14.
Tension-pushing together
a)
False
b)
True
15.
What is Liquefaction?
a)
Process where sand or landfill will often change from a wet solid into dense liquid.
b)
A process in which a solid becomes a liquid.
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