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Science

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This is where plates meet.

a)

Fault

b)

Boundary

c)

Earthquake

d)

Epicenter

2.

He proposed the idea of continental drift theory.

a)

Alfred Wegener

b)

Charles Darwin

c)

Clarence Dutton

d)

John Dalton

3.

A line which may be visible or not that occurs on the Earth’s surface.

a)

Hanging Wall

b)

Footwall

c)

Fault Trace

4.

It is any opening in the ground where magma comes out.

a)

Mountain

b)

Hill

c)

Volcano

d)

Valley

5.

These are massive and irregular slabs of solid rock that envelope the surface of the Earth.

a)

Ocean basin

b)

Continental Lithosphere

c)

Magma

d)

Tectonic Plates

6.

It is a sudden, violent shifting of massive plates underneath the Earth’s surface.

a)

Volcanic Eruption

b)

Earthquake

c)

Typhoon

d)

Landslide

7.

A fault in which two blocks of crust slide past each other on the same plane.

a)

Strike-slip fault

b)

Abnormal Fault

c)

Normal Fault

d)

Reverse Fault

8.

This is the recording that the seismograph makes.

a)

Seismograph

b)

Fault Line

c)

Earthquake

d)

Seismogram

9.

It describes the severity of an earthquake in terms of its effects on the Earth’s surface, humans, and structures.

a)

Intensity

b)

Magnitude

c)

Fault Line

d)

Seismograph

10.

These are the two supercontinents formed when Pangaea broke.

a)

Continea

b)

Laurasia

c)

Gondwanaland

d)

Isostelecia

11.

It refers to the forces and events that lead to a large structural deformation of Earth’s lithosphere.

(a)  

12.

These are the locations on earth’s surface that has experienced active volcanic activities for a long period

(a)  

13.

The boundary where two plates are moving away from each other

(a)  

14.

It is a fracture in the rocks that make up the Earth's crust

(a)  

15.

Three things that will allow a seaquake to generate tsunamis.

a)

A minimum of at least magnitude 7 on the Richter scale must be recorded.

b)

The seabed must be lifted or lowered by the quake.

c)

The seabed must be displaced sidewards.

d)

The epicenter of the Earthquake must be near to Earth's surface.

16.

The area where the fault occurs is called fault plane.

a)

False

b)

True

17.

An earthquake is recorded by an instrument.

a)

Seismogram

b)

Seismograph

18.

A fault which the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall as extension.

a)

Normal Fault

b)

Reverse Fault

c)

Strike-slip Fault

19.

A fault in which the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall as a result of compression.

a)

Normal Fault

b)

Reverse Fault

c)

Strike-slip Fault

20.

These are small earthquakes that commonly precede a major earthquake

(a)