Chapter 6 Earth Science Review

The ____________ damage in earthquakes is often not from the ground shaking but from the ______of that shaking.

• least, effects

• rock, focus

• shallow, epicenter

• greatest, effects

An ___________________ is sudden ground movement caused by the sudden release of energy stored in ________________.

• energy, rocks

• earthquake, rocks

• rock, focus

• elastic rebound, rocks

____________________ earthquakes cause the most damage because the focus is near where people live.

• Deep

• Shallow

• High

• Focus

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In an earthquake, the initial point where the rock rupture in the crust is called the ________________.

• epicenter

• focus

• shallow

• energy

It is the _________________ of an earthquake that is reported by the media.

• epicenter

• focus

• shallow

• energy

Which of the following are types of plate boundaries.(Select all that apply)

• San Andreas fault

• Northridge thrust

• Convergent

• Transform

• Divergent

________________ faults have shallow focus earthquakes.

• Convergent

• Transform

• Divergent

• Subducting

Earthquakes in Japan are caused by _________________

• Ocean - Ocean Subduction

• Continent - Continent Subduction

• Ocean - Continent Subduction

• none of these

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Surprisingly, large earthquakes only hit every _______ to _______ years.

• 20 to 40

• 50 to 100

• 100 to 150

• 300 to 600

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Small quakes, called ________________, sometimes occur a few seconds to a few weeks before a major quake.

• fractures

• predictor

• tsunami

• foreshocks

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