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The location directly above an earthquakes hypocenter on the Earth's center is the
trench
epicenter
hypercenter
surface trace
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Where two crustal plates collide and one plate is forced under the other into the mantle is
surface trace
sedimentary zone
hot spot
subduction zone
3
A large earthquake occurs, on average, somewhere in the world greater than
8.0 magnitude
1.5 magnitude
4.0 magnitude
2.0 magnitude
4
Vibrations in the Earth caused by cracks or shifts in the underlying rock are called
seismic waves
faults
sedimentation
caldera
5
Relationships between earth layers and soil samples are described by
continental drift
chronostastic time measurements
jurassic time measurements
tectonic time measurements
6
A huge layer of rock that drifts slowly over the supporting upper mantle layer is a
transform fault
geological plate
caldera
tropical oasis
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Any solid material(rock or organic) that settles out from a liquid is known as
ash
granite
sediment
a biofuel
8
The umbrella theory explaining Earth's movement,contact,and flattening of large land plates is
plate tectonics
The Richter magnitude scale
the Coriolis effect
hot spots
9
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. most people were killed by
lava
volcanic rock
A stampede of people running towards the sea
Poisonous volcanic gases
10
A volcano with little erosion and that may erupt at any time is classified as
extinct
active
high risk
dormant
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The following are all time units of the geological time scale except
periods
eras
eons
ages
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primary waves, which bunch together and then move apart like an inchworm, are
the slowest seismic waves
a type of surface waves
known as Rayleigh waves
the fastest seismic waves
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Love waves are a type of
primary seismic wave
pyroclastic flow
folded rock
surface wave