Seismic waves

It is the most damaging type of seismic waves.

• body wave

• p wave

• love wave

• surface wav

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

It is released during earthquake and sometimes called eartquake waves.

• body wave

• seismic wave

• surface wave

• Rayleigh wave

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

This type of seismic wave travels through the interiors of the Earth.

• electromagnetic wave

• light wave

• surface wave

• body wave

What device records oscillation of the ground caused by seismic waves that travel from their point of origin through Earth or along its surface?

• seismogram

• seismograph

• biograph

• pictograph

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

It is the point on the earth's surface just above the focus of where an earthquake is mostly felt.

• epicenter

• focus

• center

• core

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Which is a charateristic of body waves?

• Body waves travel through the universe.

• Body waves travel through the interiors of the earth.

• Body waves travel can not travel to layers of the Earth.

• Body waves are also known as surface waves.

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

Which statement is true about surface waves?

• Surface waves can travel through the crust and the core.

• Surface waves travel through the crust of the Earth.

• Surface waves can travel through the mantle.

• Surface waves travel through core.

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

The Earth’s whole lithosphere is broken into several rigid sections called?

• asthenosphere

• plates

• core

• rocks

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The idea that Earth’s lithosphere is broken up into separate plates that float on the mantle is the theory of __________.

• continental drift theory

• seafloor spreading

• plate tectonics

• none of the choices

The region in which one plate moves under another is ____________.

• rift valley

• subduction zone

• crust

• collision

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1