Geology 100 Self-Test 7

Answer the questions below and then click "submit" to send your answers.

  1. What causes earthquakes?

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  2. Compare and contrast concepts of intensity and magnitude in earthquakes.

    3. Your answer:

  3. Name and describe the various types of seismic waves.

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  4. Do earthquakes cause tsumani?

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  5. What are aftershocks?

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  6. The point within the earth where seismic waves originate is called

    7. Your answer:
    focus
    epicenter
    fault scarp
    fold

  7. P waves are

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    compressional
    transverse
    tensional

  8. What is the minimum number of seismic stations needed to determine the location of the epicenter of an earthquake?

    9. Your answer:
    1
    5
    3
    10

  9. The Richter Scale measures

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    intensity
    magnitude
    damage and destruction caused by earthquake
    the number of people killed by the earthquake

  10. A seismic gap is

    11. Your answer:
    the time between large earthquakes
    a segment of an inactive fault where earthquakes have not occurred for a long time
    the center of a plate where earthquakes rarely happen