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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which feature is created by all 3 types of plate boundaries.
Earthquakes
Mountains
Subduction Zones
Volcanoes
- 2. Multiple Choice
What type of fault is the San Andreas in California?
Convergent
Transform
Optimus Prime
Divergent
- 3. Multiple Choice
How do convergent plates move?
They pull away from each other.
They slide by each other.
They move to connect to each other.
It depends, sometimes they move close to each other, sometimes they move far apart.
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is the measure of the amount of ground shaking during an earthquake?
Intensity
Epicenter
Magnitude
Seismogram
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which scale rates earthquakes based on the amount of damage done?
Mercalli Intensity Scale
Richter Magnitude Scale
Seismogram Shakey Scale
Bernoulli Scale
- 6. Multiple Choice
How does the story of the 3 Little Pigs illustrate the difference between an earthquake's magnitude and its intensity?
All the houses fall down in the story like every house falls down during an earthquake.
The pig brothers were running fast to get away from the wolf so he couldn't eat them.
The wolf's blowing shows the magnitude or strength of the earthquake and the type of damage each house received shows the intensity.
Both terms mean that the houses will be damaged.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which seismic wave travels the fastest, always being the first detected by seismic stations?
P waves
S waves
Surface waves
Tsunami waves
- 8. Multiple ChoiceThe most destructive type of wave is aP-waveS-waveSurface wavetransverse wave
- 9. Multiple Choice
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.
- 10. Multiple Choice
All of the following are reasons some buildings are damaged more than others during an earthquake EXCEPT....
The strength of the building materials.
How close the building was to the earthquake's epicenter.
What type of soil the building sat on.
The people living inside of the building.
The design of the building.
- 11. Multiple Choice
What does a seismograph measure?
The amount of oil and gas underground.
The amount of damage an earthquake causes.
The temperature of the earth's core.
The amount of shaking of the crust.
- 12. Multiple Choice
How does triangulation show the location of the epicenter of an earthquake?
By scientist looking around to see where the most damage was created.
By making triangles on a map.
By calculating the difference between the P and S waves in arrival times and determining the distances from at least 3 seismic stations.
By drawing 3 or more random sized circles on a map to see where they intersect.
- 13. Multiple Choice
What is a warning before a tsunami hits?
The television news will make a prediction about a week ahead based upon the weather in the area.
The water will move away from the shore unusually fast and strong into the ocean.
The fish in the ocean will start jumping out of the water.
There will be lots are rain and wind about 2 hours before one hits.
- 14. Multiple Choice
What does the word tsunami mean in Japanese?
Harbor Wave
Big Storm
Time to run
Underwater earthquake.
- 15. Multiple Choice
It's easy to outrun a tsunami so you don't get hurt.
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