Earthquakes

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

• Earthquakes

• Mountains

• Subduction Zones

• Volcanoes

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What type of fault is the San Andreas in California?

• Convergent

• Transform

• Optimus Prime

• Divergent

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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.

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

• Intensity

• Epicenter

• Magnitude

• Seismogram

Which scale rates earthquakes based on the amount of damage done?

• Mercalli Intensity Scale

• Richter Magnitude Scale

• Seismogram Shakey Scale

• Bernoulli Scale

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.

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

• P waves

• S waves

• Surface waves

• Tsunami waves

The most destructive type of wave is a 

• P-wave
• S-wave
• Surface wave
• transverse wave

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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.

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.

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