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Test Review - PT & EQ

Total questions: 49

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the first person to propose the idea that all the continents were once joined together in a single landmass?

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Alfred Wegener

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Mrs. Czach

2.

What was the name of that landmass?

a)

Eurasia

b)

Africa

c)

Pangaea

d)

Fooltopia

3.

Which of the following is an example of evidence supporting continental drift?

a)

Fossil evidence

b)

There is no evidence.

c)

An increase in the intensity of hurricanes

d)

Ice core samples

4.

During the Triassic period, what two landmasses did Pangaea break into?

a)

Jurassic and Cretaceous

b)

Pangaea and Eurasia

c)

Laurasia and Gondwanaland

d)

Pangaea is still one landmass.

5.

This letter represents ocean lithosphere.

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

d)

D

e)

E

6.

This letter shows the Mid-oceanic ridge.

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

d)

D

e)

E

7.

The letter is showing continental lithosphere.

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

d)

D

e)

E

8.

This letter is a trench.

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

d)

D

e)

E

9.

What is a fault?

a)

A place in the crust where volcanoes occur

b)

A break in the crust where rocks have slipped past each other

c)

A place in the ocean where hurricanes originate

d)

Juan de Fuca

10.

Which of the following is a plate boundary?

a)

Convergent

b)

Pangaea

c)

Jurassic

d)

There are no such thing as plates in the first place

11.

When rocks are pulled apart at divergent boundaries, what type of stress is involved?

a)

Tension

b)

Compression

c)

Elastic rebound theory

d)

Pangaea

12.

Which of the following can form at a divergent boundary?

a)

Mid-Ocean Ridge

b)

Trenches

c)

Subduction zone

d)

None of the above

13.

Trenches form at subduction zones.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Shearing is the type of stress that occurs when two plate collide at a convergent boundary.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

At transform boundaries two plates slide past each other in opposite directions.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

The San Andreas Fault is a famous transform boundary.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

New oceanic crust forms at transform fault boundaries.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Iceland is located on a divergent plate boundary.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

Which of the following can cause an earthquake?

a)

Tsunami

b)

Volcanic eruption

c)

Hot, moist ocean water

d)

Earthquakes are fake news

20.

Vibrations in the earth caused by the sudden movement of rock are called ____________.

a)
earthquakes
b)
epicenters
c)
faults
d)
Tsunamis
21.

By analyzing difference in the time it takes for S-waves and P-waves to arrive at a seismograph station, scientists can determine an earthquake’s _______________.

a)
magnitude
b)
Mercalli ranking
c)
distance from the station
d)
intensity
e)
density
22.

The Richter Scale expresses an earthquake’s ___________.

a)
intensity
b)
location
c)
duration
d)
magnitude
23.

Major earthquakes are often followed by somewhat smaller events known as _____________.

a)
later shocks
b)
aftershocks
c)
foreshocks
d)
tsunami
24.

The mechanism by which rocks store and eventually release energy in the form of an earthquake is known as _____________.

a)
stress fracture
b)
seismic rebound
c)
fault displacement
d)
elastic rebound
25.

The instrument which records earthquake events is _____________.

a)
seismogram
b)
polygraph
c)
thermograph
d)
seismograph
26.

Earthquakes frequently occur near ______________.

a)
Subduction zones
b)
Fault lines
c)
Plate Boundaries
d)
All of these
27.

A succession of ocean waves set in motion by a submarine (underwater) earthquake is called:

a)

tidal wave

b)

czachami

c)

tidal bore

d)

tsunami

e)

seismic sea monster

28.

How many seismic stations are necessary to accurately determine the location of an earthquake's epicenter?

a)

1

b)

3

c)

10

d)

25

29.

What is the picture/image called?

a)

Seismogimic

b)

seismograph

c)

seismology

d)

seismogram

30.

What is the difference in arrival times between the P and S waves?

a)

285 mm

b)

150 mm

c)

50 minutes

d)

110 seconds

e)

50 seconds

31.

Which scale ranks earthquakes according to their intensity?

a)

Richter

b)

Moment Magnitude

c)

Mercalli

32.

Which is NOT a way that tsunamis can be generated?

a)

Submarine earthquake

b)

Category 5 hurricane

c)

Underwater land slide

d)

Meteorite impact

e)

Underwater Volcanic eruption

33.

Where was the earthquake?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

d)

D

e)

E

34.

Where was the closest seismic station to the earthquake?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

d)

D

e)

E

35.

In 2004, the most horrific natural disaster occurred that killed over 220,000 people in multiple nations. Where did the tsunami originate?

a)

Pacific Ocean

b)

Atlantic Ocean

c)

Indian Ocean

d)

Mediterranean Sea

36.

The focus is the location on the surface directly above where the earthquake occurred.

a)

True

b)

False

37.

The epicenter is the location on the surface directly above where the earthquake occurred.

a)

True

b)

False

38.

The 2 types of body waves are love waves and Rayleigh waves.

a)

True

b)

False

39.

The 2 types of body waves are P waves and S waves.

a)

True

b)

False

40.

P waves are compression waves.

a)

True

b)

False

41.

P waves are always the first waves that are detected following an earthquake.

a)

True

b)

False

42.

An aftershock occurs before the earthquake and indicates it is coming.

a)

True

b)

False

43.

Liquefaction is when saturated materials turn to fluids.

a)

True

b)

False

44.

The Atlantic Ocean is the only ocean with a Tsunami Warning System.

a)

True

b)

False

45.

Earthquakes are easy to predict and the predictions are often very accurate.

a)

True

b)

False

46.

Which letter represents the epicenter?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

47.

Which letter represents the fault?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

48.

Which letter represents the focus?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

49.

How do the plates move?

a)

they don't move...that's ridiculous

b)

Convection currents in the mantle move them along like a conveyor belt

c)

t

d)

t