Chapter 10 Vocabulary Quiz (earthquakes)
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Earthquakes are usually caused when rock underground suddenly breaks along a fault. It is a known fact that they occur seven hundred times a day in the world but the ones most people know about are the most dangerous ones that pose a risk to the people and animals around them. How wide is your vocabulary when it comes to earthquakes? Take up this quiz from chapter ten and get to find out.
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- 1.Smaller Earthquake that follows a larger earthquake
- 2.The shaking of the Earth's crust caused by a release of energy
- 3.Waves of energy that travel from the focus through the interior of the Earth
- 4.The point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
- 5.Large ocean wave that results from an underwater earthquake, landslide, or volcanic eruption
- 6.An area along a seismically active fault where no earthquake activity has occurred over a long period of time
- 7.An instrument that detects and records waves produced by earthquakes
- 8.The recording of an earthquake made by a seismograph
- 9.A temporary state in which loose soil and rock materials take on the properties of a liquid
- 10.A break in the lithosphere along which movement has occurred
- 11.The point at which first movement occurs during an earthquake
- 12.Earthquake waves that travel along the Earth's surface
- 13.Body waves that squeeze and stretch rock materials as they pass through the Earth
- 14.Body waves that cause particle of rock to travel at right angles to each other
- 15.The measure of the amount of energy released during an earthquake
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