Earthquakes

More than 10,000 earthquakes occur

• every minute

• every day

• every month

• every year

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Any place the Earth's crust can move is called a

• fault

• crevice

• plates

• mantle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The focus (or hypocenter) is the place where energy is released at a fault and is the starting point of an earthquake.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What type of waves are released from earthquakes?

• plate

• seismic

• mantle

• light

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

What are scientists who study earthquakes called?

• quakeologists

• platoligists

• seismologists

• shakeologists

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The location on earth's surface directly above the focus, the place where the earthquake starts.

• epicenter

• richter

• boundary

• plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of these are instruments used to study earthquakes?

• seismometer

• seismograph

• seismogram

• all of these

Scientists use this to measure the energy waves emitted from earthquakes.

• Shake Table

• Tsunami Detection

• Richter Scale

• Satellites

A series of large waves created by underwater earthquakes, volcanoes and other disturbances.

• currents

• tsunami

• aftershocks

• storm surge

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

This technology is used to simulate the shaking of an earthquake to help design structures that will withstand seismic waves during earthquakes.

• seismometer

• satellites

• buoys

• shake tables

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

NGSS.MS-ETS1-4