Ch 8 Test Review

Which scale measures the intensity of the ground movement?

• Richter Scale

  
  

• Mercalli Scale

  
  

• Seismogram Scale

  
  

• Bernoulli Scale

  
  

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

• Mercalli Scale

  
  

• Richter Scale

  
  

• Seismogram Scale

  
  

• Bernoulli Scale

  
  

Which is an instrument used to measure earthquakes?

• Echocardiogram

  
  

• Geiger counter

  
  

• Seismograph

  
  

• X-Ray

  
  

How is energy transferred from the focus underground to the epicenter on the surface?

• gravity

• waves

• the lithosphere

• the asthenosphere

Many earthquakes happen along the borders of....

• continents

  
  

• climate zones

  
  

• countries

• tectonic plates

  
  

Earth's outer core will not transmit S waves because it is made of __________.

• gas

• metal

• solid

• liquid

The change in the physical properties of Earth’s interior at the mantle-core boundary makes P waves ____________ as they pass through the boundary.

• bend

• stop

• refract

• absorb

The two types of measurements used to describe the size of an earthquake are ___________ and _________________.

• Mercalli and Richter

  
  

• intensity and magnitude

  
  

• Richter and Magnitude

  
  

• duration and magnitude

  
  

The seismic waves that travel along Earth's outer layer are ________ waves, and those that travel through its interior are _______ waves.

• body, surface

  
  

• compressional, transverse

  
  

• transverse, compressional

  
  

• surface, body

  
  

The place where an earthquake originates is its

• sufrace

• fault

• focus

• epicenter