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1
What kind of waves can be classified as a P-wave or an S-wave?
Sonar Waves
Body Waves
Surface Waves
Electromagnetic Waves
2
Scientists use __________ waves to map the interior of the Earth.
Earthquake Waves
Ocean Waves
Microwaves
Sonar Waves
3
What evidence supports the Theory of Pangaea?
Ancient Mountain Chains
Animal and Plant Fossils
All of the Above
Glacial Scratches
4
What is the most common event at transform boundaries?
Oceans
Mountains
Trenches
Earthquakes
5
True or False: The driving force behind the movement of the plates is convection in the mantle.
True
False
6
What is the first seismic body wave to reach the surface of the Earth?
S-Wave
Surface Wave
P-Wave
Body Wave
7
What landforms are common at convergent boundaries?
Low hills
Continents
Trenches and Mountains
Mid Ocean Ridge and Rift Valley
8
What occurs at divergent boundaries?
Ridges and Rift Valleys
Mountains
Ocean Trenches
Ocean mounds
9
What semi-liquid layer does the Earth's plates float on?
Outer Core
Inner Core
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
10
What has the greatest effect on seismometers?
Direction
Distance
Force
Weight
11
At least ___ seismic recording stations are used to find the epicenter of an earthquake.
1
4
2
3
12
What is the supercontinent that began breaking apart 200 million years ago called?
Mesopotamia
Pangaea
The Supercontinent
Jurassica
13
What is the wave that travels in a side to side motion and reaches the surface second?
P-wave
Surface Wave
Body Wave
S-wave
14
What are the three main layers of Earth's interior?
Crust, Oceans, Continents
Core, Plates, Rock
Crust, Mantle, Core
Mantle, Atmosphere, Space
15
What kind of waves can travel through both solid and liquid rock?
P-wave
S-wave
Surface Wave
Body Wave
16
This kind of wave can travel through solid rock, but not liquid rock.
P wave
Body Wave
S wave
Surface Wave
17
Oceanic plates are ____ dense than continental plates.
Less
More
18
What are the two types of tectonic plates?
Oceanic and Continental
Continental and Hot
Hot and Cold
Oceanic and Cold
19
Earthquake and volcano locations and patterns reveal what?
Oceanic Crust
Plate Centers
Plate Boundaries
Continental Crust
20
What measures the intensity of an earthquake?
Richter Scale
Earthquake Scale
Intensity Scale
Modified Mercalli Scale
21
The Richter Scale measures what?
The intensity of an earthquake.
The effect of the earthquake on people.
The total damage done by an earthquake.
The total amount of energy released by an earthquake.
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What are the instruments that detect earthquake vibrations?
Modified Mercalli Scale
Thermometers
Richter Scale
Seismometers
