quiz 5 part 2 geol

What is the phenomenon where two blocks of the earth suddenly slip past one another with the surface of slip called fault or fault plane?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Earthquake

What is the study of earthquakes and the waves they create?

• Epicenter

• Seismogram

• Seismometer

• Seismology

Who is a scientist who studies and measures earthquakes to learn more about them and to use them for geological discovery?

• Seismologist

• Seismograph

• Isoseismal

• Anticenter

What are the recordings of the ground shaking at the specific location of the seismograph?

• Seismographs

• Seismology

• Seismograms

• Seismometer

What is the recording instrument used to record the motion of the ground during an earthquake?

• Seismologist

• Seismometer

• Seismic Vertical

• Seismogram

What is the place of origin/center of the earthquake in the interior of the earth?

• Seismic Vertical

• Focus/Origin/Hypocenter

• Anticenter

• Epicenter

What is the place on the earth’s surface, which lies directly above the center of the earthquake?

• Isoseismal

• Seismometer

• Anticenter

• Epicenter

What is the point on the earth’s surface diametrically opposite to the epicenter?

• Coseismal

• Anticenter

• Seismic Vertical

• Seismograph

What is the imaginary line which joins the center and the epicenter representing the minimum distance which the earthquake has to travel to reach the surface of the earth?

• Seismologist

• Seismic Vertical

• Isoseismal

• Seismogram

What is an imaginary line joining the points of the same intensity of the earthquake?

• Seismology

• Coseismal

• Seismograph

• Seismometer