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WorksheetsEarthquakes
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 31mins
What is the word for the movement on the surface of the Earth resulting from underground movement between two plates?
An Earthquake
Shaking Earth
Volcano
What causes earthquakes?
Millions of people jumping at once
The earth rotating
The movement of plate tectonics
Gravity
Boundary between two plates moving toward each other
Transform fault boundary
Divergent boundary
Convergent boundary
Strike-slip fault
Boundary between two plates that are sliding past one another
Transform fault boundary
Convergent boundary
Divergent boundary
Reverse fault
Boundary between two plates that are moving apart
Convergent boundary
Transform fault boundary
Sideways boundary
Divergent boundary
All of the following cause breaks in the Earth's crust EXCEPT (select all the correct ones)
plates sliding against one another.
plates crashing together.
plates spreading apart.
plates changing shapes.
What is the scale used to measure the strengths of earthquakes?
Fujita scale
Richter scale
Damage scale
NASA scale
The Richter scale measures: (click on the image)
the amount of radon gas released
the movement of plates
the strength of an earthquake
the weight of tectonic plates
Where and when did the largest recorded earthquake take place? (click on the image and take your time to carefully look at it)
2010 in Haiti
2011 in Japan
2011 in Chile
1960 in Chile
How many major earthquakes, of magnitude 7, happen every year? (take your time to carefully look at the image)
1
18
120
100,000
On the map, each dot marks the locations of a magnitude 4 or larger earthquake in 5 years. Click on the image. After carefully looking at it, select the places where earthquakes happen often
South East Asia
São Paulo
The Andes (in South America)
Middle-East
Africa
Click on the image, take your time to analyze it, then chose the option that best completes the sentence: "Earthquakes occur when plates move under, over, or slide past each other. As you can see on the map, most earthquakes occur _______ the edges of the large plates that make up Earth’s crust."
along
far away from
