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Self Test Earthquakes
Your Name:
1) An instrument that detects and measures earthquakes is a
seismogram
focus
seismic map
seismograph
2) Earthquake waves that can travel through solids, liquids, and gases are
P-waves
S-waves
L-waves
long waves
3) The earthquake waves that cause the most damage are
P-waves
S-waves
L-waves
D-waves
4) You need seismograms from _________ seismograph stations to find an earthquake's
epicenter.
two
three
five
twenty
5) Crustal plates sliding past each other are most likely to cause
an earthquake
a mountain to form
a volcano
an island
6) What is the point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus?
earthquake center
epicenter
fault
focus
7) Most earthquakes and volcanoes occur
in the Ring of Fire
at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
on the Eurasian Melanesian mountain belt
all of the above
8) Charles Richter developed
a way to predict earthquakes
a scale to measure earthquakes
a machine to measure earthquakes
earthquake resistant buildings
9) The longest mountain ranges and the some of the tallest mountains are
in China
in Antarctica
under the Atlantic Ocean
in Canada
10) Alfred Wegner
invented the seismograph
originated the idea of continental drift
discovered sea-floor spreading
invented the Wegner scale
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