1. Which of the following will help predict the site of future earthquakes?
a. aftershock
b. seismic gap
c. liquefaction
d. tsunami
2. Which scale measures the intensity of the ground movement?
a. Mercalli Scale
b. Seismogram Scale
c. Richter Scale
d. Bernoulli Scale
3. What is the measure of the amount of energy released in an earthquake?
a. magnitude
b. earthquake
c. epicenter
d. seismogram
4. What is an instrument that detects and records waves produced by rarthquakes?(This piece of equipment can measure the magnitude of an earthquake.
a. epicenter
b. seismogram
c. fault
d. seismograph
5. S Waves can move through which of the following?
a. gas
b. solid
c. gas
d. all of these
6. P Waves can move through which of the following?
a. gas
b. solid
c. gas
d. all of these
7. What is another term for P Wave?
a. compression wave
b. shear wave
c. principal wave
d. secondary wave
8. Where is the point on the Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake?
a. epicenter
b. hypocenter
c. fault
d. tremor
9. Which of the following is NOT a cause of an earthquake?
a. Collapse of Cavern
c. Eruption of Volcano
b. Lightning Strikes
d. Moving Tectonic Plates
10. What is the shaking of the Earth’s crust caused by a release of energy?
a. fault
b. epicenter
c. earthquake
d. plate
Answers & Comments
Answer:
1 D
2 B
3 B
4 A
5B
6C
7B
8B
9B
10 D