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Earthquakes

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 33mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Most earthquakes occur on or near

(a)  

2.

California is divided into the North American Plate and Pacific Plate. What kind of boundary do those plates have?

a)

divergent

b)

convergent

c)

transform

3.

where quake begins below surface

a)

elastic rebounding

b)

focus

c)

epicenter

d)

fault

4.

where quake begins on surface

a)

epicenter

b)

joint

c)

fault

d)

focus

5.

Which feature is created by all 3 types of plate boundaries.

a)

Earthquakes

b)

Mountains

c)

Subduction Zones

d)

Volcanoes

6.

What is the measure of the amount of ground shaking during an earthquake?

a)

Intensity

b)

Epicenter

c)

Magnitude

d)

Seismogram

7.

Which scale rates earthquakes based on the amount of damage done?

a)

Mercalli Intensity Scale

b)

Richter Magnitude Scale

c)

Seismogram Shakey Scale

d)

Bernoulli Scale

8.
The most destructive type of wave is a 
a)
P-wave
b)
S-wave
c)
Surface wave
d)
transverse wave
9.

How does the Richter Magnitude Scale calculate its measurements?

a)

Eyewitnesses

b)

Amount of damage caused

c)

The amount of time the earthquake lasted

d)

The strength of the seismic waves recorded by a seismograph machine.

10.

All of the following are reasons some buildings are damaged more than others during an earthquake EXCEPT....

a)

The strength of the building materials.

b)

How close the building was to the earthquake's epicenter.

c)

What type of soil the building sat on.

d)

The people living inside of the building.

e)

The design of the building.

11.

What does a seismograph measure?

a)

The amount of oil and gas underground.

b)

The amount of damage an earthquake causes.

c)

The temperature of the earth's core.

d)

The amount of shaking of the crust.

12.

What is a warning before a tsunami hits?

a)

The television news will make a prediction about a week ahead based upon the weather in the area.

b)

The water will move away from the shore unusually fast and strong into the ocean.

c)

The fish in the ocean will start jumping out of the water.

d)

There will be lots are rain and wind about 2 hours before one hits.

13.

It's easy to outrun a tsunami so you don't get hurt.

a)
b)
14.
An instrument that detects and measures earthquakes is a 
a)
seismogram
b)
focus seismic map
c)
focus
d)
seismograph 
15.

Most earthquakes happen along _________________.

a)

the coast

b)

faults

c)

the desert

d)

mountain ranges

16.
Earthquakes under the water can cause _________________________________.
a)
tornadoes
b)
tsunamis
c)
lightening
d)
hailstorms
17.

Many earthquakes happen along the borders of...

a)

Countries

b)

Tectonic Plates

c)

Climate Zones

d)

None of the above.

18.

The crack in the surface of the Earth along which rocks break and earthquakes sometime occur:

a)

focus

b)

fault

c)

epicenter

d)

hypocenter

19.

The place on the Earth's surface, above the origin of the earthquake.

a)

Epicenter

b)

Focus

c)

Surface

d)

Crust

20.

What is the instrument used to measure earthquakes?

a)

Seismograph

b)

Seismologist

c)

Scale

d)

Seismogram

21.

Which city is closest to the epicenter?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

22.

Measures the magnitude or size, of an Earthquake

a)

epicenter

b)

focus

c)

Richter scale

d)

Mercalli Scale

23.

How much bigger is a magnitude 8 earthquake compared to magnitude 6 quake on the Richter Scale?

a)

2 times bigger

b)

20 times bigger

c)

48 times bigger

d)

100 times bigger

24.

What is the temporary state in which loose soil and rock materials take on the property of quicksand?

a)

Aftershock

b)

Liquefaction

c)

Seismic Gap

d)

Tsunami

25.
Which ocean in the world is also known as the "Ring of Fire"
a)
Atlantic
b)
Indian
c)
Arctic
d)
Pacific
26.
Earthquakes happen every day. Most are too small for humans to notice.
a)
True
b)
False
27.

When upper floors crash down on lower floors from an earthquake

a)

pancaking

b)

landslide

c)

tsunami

d)

strike-slip

28.

The San Andreas Fault is a what kind of fault?

a)

normal

b)

reverse

c)

strike slip

29.

The scale that focuses on the size/depth of the fault is the:

a)

Modified Mercalli

b)

Moment Magnitude

c)

Richter

30.

The west coast of South America experiences lots of large earthquakes because:

a)

It's in a subduction zone

b)

it's a a divergent plate boundary

c)

the soil is prone to liquefaction