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- 1. Multiple Choice
What type of fault is the San Andreas?ConvergentTransformOptimus PrimeDivergent - 2. Multiple ChoiceWhat type of seismic wave travels compressionally?P waveS waveSurfaceNone
- 3. Multiple ChoiceAn instrument that detects and measures earthquakes is aseismogramfocus seismic mapfocusseismograph
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhat type of fault is this?NormalReverseStrike-slip
- 5. Multiple Choice
This type of fault is....
normal fault
reverse fault
strike-slip fault
- 6. Multiple Choice
This type of fault is....
normal fault
reverse fault
strike-slip fault
- 7. Multiple Choice
This type of fault is....
normal fault
reverse fault
strike-slip fault
- 8. Multiple ChoiceHow does a reverse fault form?The hanging wall moves upward relative to the footwall.Compression thrusts the fault into reverse.Blocks slide past each other.The hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall.
- 9. Multiple ChoiceThe cat is standing on the...foot wallhanging wallleftweirdest elevator ever
- 10. Multiple ChoiceHow does a reverse fault form?The hanging wall moves upward relative to the footwall.Compression thrusts the fault into reverse.Blocks slide past each other.The hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall.
- 11. Multiple Choice
Strike-slip faults occur at a ______________________ boundaries.
divergent
convergent
transform
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhere is the epicenter for this earthquake located based on triangulation?ABCD
- 13. Multiple ChoiceWhich type of seismic waves are the slowest?S-wavesP-wavesSurface wavesPrimary waves
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhich is the first seismic wave to arrive at a seismograph station (where they are measured and detected)?L waveR waveP waveS wave
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWhich of these places is likely to have an earthquake?California because of the San Andreas faultIowa because of the corn faultNew York because of the Empire FaultNo places are more likely to have earthquakes than others
- 16. Multiple ChoiceA seismic wave that causes particles of rock to move in a side-to-side direction.S - WavesSide WavesSurface WavesP - Waves
- 17. Multiple ChoiceThe point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's starting point or focus.Hot spotFocusMoho pointEpicenter
- 18. Multiple ChoiceThe point along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs.Starting pointEpicenterFocusMoho point
- 19. Multiple ChoiceThese seismic waves compress and expand the ground like an accordion. They are the first waves to come through:p-wavess-wavesl-wavesz-waves
- 20. Multiple ChoiceThis word describes the size of the earthquake:seismographmagnitudefocusepicenter
- 21. Multiple ChoiceThe Richter scale measures:the amount of radon gas releasedthe movement of platesthe strength of an earthquakethe weight of tectonic plates
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