#1 | Any change in the volume of shape of the Earth Crust is called | What is Deformation? |
#2 | This type of sesmic wave arrives first at a seismograph | What is a P-wave? |
#3 | Anticlines and Synclines are two types of | What are folds? |
#4 | The point beneath the Earth's surface where the crust breaks and triggers an Earthquake is called | What is the Focus? |
#5 | This stress pulls on the crust and stretches the rock | What is tension? |
#1 | An instrument used to measure and record ground movements during an earthquake is called | What is a seismograph? |
#2 | This is the process that turns loose soil to mud during an Earthquake | What is Liquefaction? |
#3 | This type of Fault forms when the hanging wall moves UPWARD past the footwall | What is a Reverse Fault? |
#4 | This is the type of stress produced by a strike-slip fault | What is Shearing? |
#5 | The point on the Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus is called | What is the Epicenter? |
#1 | This rating system estimates total energy released by an Earthquake | What is the moment magnitude scale? |
#2 | Compression, tension and shearing are 3 types of what | What is stress? |
#3 | Water displaced by an undersea earthquake is called | What is a Tsunami? |
#4 | A large area of flat land that is elevated high above sea level is a | What is a Plateau |
#5 | These are the vibrations that travel through Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake | What are Seismic waves? |
#1 | This is the strength of earthquakes as measured by sesmic waves and movement along faults | What is magnitude? |
#2 | This is an earthquake that occurs after a larger earthquake in the same area | What is an aftershock? |
#3 | This scale measures the size of the sesmic waves | What is the Richter scale? |
#4 | These waves vibrate side to side and up and down | What are S (secondary) waves? |
#5 | This scale measures the intensity of earthquakes | What is the Mercalli scale? |
#1 | These waves move through BOTH solid and liquid | What are P (Primary) waves? |
#2 | These are the 2 things geologists measure to predict earthquakes | What is stress and defomation? |
#3 | When normal faults uplift a block of rock the result is this | What is a fault block mountain? |
#4 | These faults occur at Convergent boundaries | What are reverse faults? |
#5 | These faults occur at Divergent boundaries | What are normal faults? |
Final Question | |
What 2 things do geologists take into account when determining earthquake risk | What is the location of the active fault and where past earthquakes have occcurred |