Earthquakes

Front

Which feature is created by all 3 types of plate boundaries?

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Earthquakes

Front

What type of fault is the San Andreas in California?

Back

Transform

Front

How do convergent plates move?

Back

They move to connect to each other.

Front

What is the measure of the amount of ground shaking during an earthquake?

Back

Magnitude

Front

Which scale rates earthquakes based on the amount of damage done? Options: Mercalli Intensity Scale, Richter Magnitude Scale, Seismogram Shakey Scale, Bernoulli Scale

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Mercalli Intensity Scale

Front

How does the story of the 3 Little Pigs illustrate the difference between an earthquake's magnitude and its intensity?

Back

The wolf's blowing shows the magnitude or strength of the earthquake and the type of damage each house received shows the intensity.

Front

Which seismic wave travels the fastest, always being the first detected by seismic stations?

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P waves

Front

The most destructive type of wave is a: P-wave, S-wave, Surface wave, transverse wave

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Surface wave

Front

How does the Richter Magnitude Scale calculate its measurements?

Back

The strength of the seismic waves recorded by a seismograph machine.

Front

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 design of the building.

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The people living inside of the building.