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WorksheetsEarthquakes
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 48mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the vocabulary word for the movement on the surface of the Earth resulting from underground movement between two plates?
a)
An Earthquake
b)
Shaking Earth
c)
Volcano
2.
What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?
a)
Core
b)
Mantle
c)
Crust
3.
What are the puzzle pieces of the Earth's surface called?
a)
Tectonic plates
b)
Puzzles
c)
Earthquakes
4.
What occurs when two plates move, bump or slide past each other?
a)
An Earthquake
b)
Nothing
c)
Movement
5.
What is the vocabulary word for the line where two tectonic plates move past each other?
a)
Plate Line
b)
Fault Line
c)
Puzzle Line
6.
The place where an earthquake originates inside the Earth's surface is called...
a)
Epicenter
b)
Hypocenter (focus)
c)
Underground
d)
Crust
7.
The place where the earthquake is felt on the Earth's surface is called...
a)
Epicenter
b)
Hypocenter (focus)
c)
Surface
d)
Crust
8.
What are the three types of plate boundaries?
a)
Transform, Convergent, Divergent
b)
Apart, Together, Slide
c)
Slide, Pull away, Push together
9.
What is the instrument used to measure earthquakes?
a)
Seismograph
b)
Seisologist
c)
Scale
10.
The strength of an earthquake's seismic waves...
a)
epicenter
b)
magnitude
c)
tsunami
d)
focus
11.
Giant ocean waves are called?
a)
epicenter
b)
seismic wave
c)
focus
d)
tsunami
12.
A tracing of earthquake motion that is created by a seismograph. This can be on a huge sheet of paper, shows P-waves
a)
Seimogram
b)
Seismic wave
c)
Carrollton
d)
Deformed
13.
Many earthquakes happen along the borders of...
a)
Countries
b)
Tetonic Plates
c)
Climate Zones
d)
None of the above.
14.
The Richter scale measures:
a)
the amount of radon gas released
b)
the movement of plates
c)
the strength of an earthquake
d)
the weight of tectonic plates
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