Worksheets2.2 Earthquake Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
Earthquakes are most likely to happen at ____ boundaries.
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
Which description of Earthquakes is most accurate?
Earthquakes are very rare, but when they happen they always cause severe damage.
Earthquakes happen every day, but most are too small to notice.
Earthquakes happen every day, so they are the number one cause of death in the US.
The most destructive type of wave is a
P-wave
S-wave
Surface wave
transverse wave
How much bigger is a magnitude 8 earthquake compared to magnitude 6 quake on the Richter Scale?
2 times bigger
20 times bigger
48 times bigger
100 times bigger
The place where the earthquake is felt on the Earth's surface is called the...
Epicenter
Hypocenter (focus)
Surface
Crust
The point on earth's surface, directly above the focus (or hypocenter) is called the __________________.
epicenter
fault
seismic wave
earthquake place
Which feature is created by all 3 types of plate boundaries.
Earthquakes
Mountains
Subduction Zones
Volcanoes
What is the measure of the amount of ground shaking during an earthquake?
Intensity
Epicenter
Magnitude
Seismogram
How does the Richter Magnitude Scale calculate its measurements?
Eyewitnesses
Amount of damage caused
The amount of time the earthquake lasted
The strength of the seismic waves recorded by a seismograph machine.
