Earthquakes

Where do earthquakes happen?

• Along plate boundaries

• Near mountains

• When there are aftershocks

• Near the ocean

What is the place called where an earthquake starts. (Inside the earth's crust)?

• convergent plates

• epicentre

• hypocentre (focus)

• divergent plates

What is the place called where an earthquake hits the earth's surface.

• tsunami

• aftershocks

• hypocentre (focu)

• epicentre

What can an earthquake underwater create?

• Tsunami

• Volcano

• Hurricane

• Tornado

What are weaker earthquakes called that happen after the main earthquake?

• tsunamis

• aftershocks

• aftershakes

• plate boundaries

What are the waves of energy called that an earthquake creates?

• tsunami waves

• quake waves

• shock waves

• seismic waves

What instrument is used to measure the shaking of the earth's surface?

• seismometer

• richter scale

• plate tectonic scale

• magnitudemometer

What instrument measures the strength of an earthquake on a scale of 1 - 10?

• seismograph

• seismometer

• richter scale

True or False...Earthquakes happen everyday, but they are usually too weak to feel them.

• True

• False

Check 3 things you should keep in an emergency earthquake kit.

• flashlight

• blanket

• water

• book

• ipad