A Quiz About Earthquakes
5 Questions
| Total Attempts: 80
This a quiz about earthquakes.
Questions and Answers
- 1.Earthquakes are also called
- A.
Tremblors
- B.
Earthmoving
- C.
Erotic Eruptions
- D.
Shakers
- 2.An earthquake measuring 3 to 5 is considered
- A.
Medium
- B.
Heavy
- C.
Minor/light
- D.
No big deal
- 3.There was a major earthquake that happened in Haiti that occurred in the year 2010.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.On average, a magnitude 8 quake strikes somewhere every year and some 10,000 people die in earthquakes every year.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.There are types of plate boundaries that cause earthquakes to happen. Name one of the plate boundaries.
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