WorksheetsEarthquakes
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
What is an earthquake?
Tsunami
Bob
A Fault
A sudden realease of energy in the earth's crust
What is a Fault?
San Andreas
Augusta, Georgia
A natural break in the rocks that make up the earth's crust
Oklahoma City
Where are earthquakes likely to occur?
Plate Boundaries
Fault lines
In volcanic regions
McDonalds
Causes of Earthquakes
Plate movement
Movement along the fault
Volcanic eruptions, landslides, blasting, mining, fracking
Minecraft Creepers
Normal Fault
2 blocks of rock are pulled apart
Rocks put together
Ground
Canyon
Reverse Fault
2 blocks of rock are flying up
3 blocks of rock are slid by each other
2 blocks of rock are pulled apart
2 blocks of rock are pushed together
Transform (Strike-Slip) Fault
2 blocks of rock that slide past each other
Horizontal Movement
San Andreas
Seismographs
Seismogram
The record of an earth tremor made by a seismograph
Ring of Fire
Aftershock
A lit machine
Amplitude
The height of a mountain
The maximum extent of a vibration or oscillation, measured from the position of equilibrium
Duncan's height
Bryce's height
Aftershock
shock
A rumble
An earthquake which follows a larger earthquake and originates at or near the focus of the larger earthquake
The last wave
Ring of Fire
Ring
Of
Fire
About 80 percent of all major earthquakes in the world happen here
Focus
Eyesight
Paying attention
The point underground where the movement of an earthquake first takes places
Camera lens
Tsunami
Overflowed toilet
A series of large waves that is caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption
Small waves
Medium Waves
P Waves
First Waves to strike
Can travel through solids and liquids
Right after O waves
Stand for Peter
Divergent Boundary
A Tectonic boundary
Go towards each other
Where two plates are moving away from each other
Are in the movie Divergent
Seismo
A superhero
Greek prefix meaning "earthquake"
A rock
A dude
Magnitude
Mag
A measure of the amount of energy released by an earthquake
Nit
ude
Seismologist
A geophysicist who studies earthquakes
Dinosaur expert
Gorilla doctor
Harambe
Richter Scale
A numerical scale used to measure the magnitude or energy release of an earthquake
Rich
ter
Rich people
Core
Harambe
Cecil
Tootsie Pop
The innermost layer of earth
Crust
The solid outermost layer of the earth
Pizza crust
Hardness
Yumminess
