Ch. 6 Earth Science Test

What is the indicator for the energy released by earth movement.

Which earthquake waves are fastest?

Faults involve movement of the rocks.

A focus is the point on the earth's surface above the center of the earthquake activity.

What kind of waves are Love and Rayleigh waves?

Subduction would most likely occur at a divergent boundary.

What is the angle that the face of the fault makes with the horizontal?

Divergent plates are the most likely to cause dangerous earthquakes.

What does Modified Mercalli scale measure?

What is the amount of strain a material can endure without breaking called?

What type of fault is a transform fault?

What land forms are mostly associated with major faults?

The San Andreas is the longest dip slip fault in California.

Plates that move toward each other are called

What do we call an ocean wave caused by an earthquake?

What is the horizontal direction of a fault?

A seismogram is an instrument that detects earthquake waves.

Moment magnitude scale measure smaller and closer earthquakes.

Can animals sometimes sense impending earthquakes?

Which boundaries slide past each other?

The most important type of stress in producing earthquakes is tension.

Can we reliably predict earthquakes?

Which earthquake waves are most destructive?

What do we call plates that move away from each other?