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Earthquakes

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is an earthquake?

a)

Tsunami

b)

Bob

c)

A Fault

d)

A sudden realease of energy in the earth's crust

2.

What is a Fault?

a)

San Andreas

b)

Augusta, Georgia

c)

A natural break in the rocks that make up the earth's crust

d)

Oklahoma City

3.

Where are earthquakes likely to occur?

a)

Plate Boundaries

b)

Fault lines

c)

In volcanic regions

d)

McDonalds

4.

Causes of Earthquakes

a)

Plate movement

b)

Movement along the fault

c)

Volcanic eruptions, landslides, blasting, mining, fracking

d)

Minecraft Creepers

5.

Normal Fault

a)

2 blocks of rock are pulled apart

b)

Rocks put together

c)

Ground

d)

Canyon

6.

Reverse Fault

a)

2 blocks of rock are flying up

b)

3 blocks of rock are slid by each other

c)

2 blocks of rock are pulled apart

d)

2 blocks of rock are pushed together

7.

Transform (Strike-Slip) Fault

a)

2 blocks of rock that slide past each other

b)

Horizontal Movement

c)

San Andreas

d)

Seismographs

8.

Seismogram

a)

The record of an earth tremor made by a seismograph

b)

Ring of Fire

c)

Aftershock

d)

A lit machine

9.

Amplitude

a)

The height of a mountain

b)

The maximum extent of a vibration or oscillation, measured from the position of equilibrium

c)

Duncan's height

d)

Bryce's height

10.

Aftershock

a)

shock

b)

A rumble

c)

An earthquake which follows a larger earthquake and originates at or near the focus of the larger earthquake

d)

The last wave

11.

Ring of Fire

a)

Ring

b)

Of

c)

Fire

d)

About 80 percent of all major earthquakes in the world happen here

12.

Focus

a)

Eyesight

b)

Paying attention

c)

The point underground where the movement of an earthquake first takes places

d)

Camera lens

13.

Tsunami

a)

Overflowed toilet

b)

A series of large waves that is caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption

c)

Small waves

d)

Medium Waves

14.

P Waves

a)

First Waves to strike

b)

Can travel through solids and liquids

c)

Right after O waves

d)

Stand for Peter

15.

Divergent Boundary

a)

A Tectonic boundary

b)

Go towards each other

c)

Where two plates are moving away from each other

d)

Are in the movie Divergent

16.

Seismo

a)

A superhero

b)

Greek prefix meaning "earthquake"

c)

A rock

d)

A dude

17.

Magnitude

a)

Mag

b)

A measure of the amount of energy released by an earthquake

c)

Nit

d)

ude

18.

Seismologist

a)

A geophysicist who studies earthquakes

b)

Dinosaur expert

c)

Gorilla doctor

d)

Harambe

19.

Richter Scale

a)

A numerical scale used to measure the magnitude or energy release of an earthquake

b)

Rich

c)

ter

d)

Rich people

20.

Core

a)

Harambe

b)

Cecil

c)

Tootsie Pop

d)

The innermost layer of earth

21.

Crust

a)

The solid outermost layer of the earth

b)

Pizza crust

c)

Hardness

d)

Yumminess