WorksheetsQ1 REVIEWER PART 2
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 13mins
Main type of seismic waves that can only travel through the surface of the Earth.
seismic waves
surface waves
body waves
primary waves
It is the energy radiated in all directions from the focus due to earthquake.
seismic waves
epicenter
body waves
surface waves
Main type of waves that can travel the earth`s inner layer.
surface waves
body waves
Love waves
Rayleigh waves
This is considered as the fastest kind of seismic waves.
Love waves
Body waves
Primary waves
Secondary waves
The most damaging type of waves
Love waves
Rayleigh waves
Primary waves
Secondary waves
It can travel through solids only
Love waves
Rayleigh waves
Primary waves
Secondary waves
Two types of surface waves
Love waves and Rayleigh Waves
P waves and S waves
Two types of body waves
Love waves and Rayleigh waves
P waves and S waves
An S-wave shadow zone is formed as seismic waves travel through the Earth’s body. Which of the following statements does this S-wave shadow zone indicate?
The inner core is liquid.
The inner core is solid.
The mantle is solid.
The outer core is liquid.
Why are there no P-waves or S-waves received in the P-wave shadow zone?
P-waves are absorbed and S-waves are refracted by Earth’s outer core.
P-waves are refracted and S-waves are absorbed by Earth’s outer core.
Both the P-waves and S-waves are refracted by Earth’s outer core.
Both the P-waves and S-waves are absorbed by Earths outer core.
What makes up the lithosphere?
Continental crust
Crust and the upper mantle
Oceanic crust and continental crust
Upper mantle
During the 1960s, scientists were already equipped with gadgets needed to explore the deep ocean. What discovery about the ocean floor is associated with the seafloor spreading?
Mountains are denser than the mantle
The rotational poles of the Earth have migrated.
The crust of the continents is denser than the crust of the ocean.
The crust of the ocean is very young relative to the age of the crust of the continents.
The boundary that separates the crust and the mantle.
Mohorovicic Discontinuity (Moho)
Lithosphere
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Tectonics is the scientific study of the deformation of the rocks that make up the Earth's crust and the forces that produce such deformation.
True
False
To locate an epicenter, the distance from ______________ different seismic stations must be known.
two
one
three
four
The method used to determine the epicenter of an earthquake.
Circulation
seismology
triangulation
