Ch. 6 Earth Science Test

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

Can animals sometimes sense impending earthquakes?

Which earthquake waves are most destructive?

Moment magnitude scale measure smaller and closer earthquakes.

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

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

What kind of waves are Love and Rayleigh waves?

Can we reliably predict earthquakes?

What type of fault is a transform fault?

What does Modified Mercalli scale measure?

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

Divergent plates are the most likely to cause dangerous earthquakes.

Plates that move toward each other are called

A seismogram is an instrument that detects earthquake waves.

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

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

What land forms are mostly associated with major faults?

Faults involve movement of the rocks.

What is the horizontal direction of a fault?

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

Subduction would most likely occur at a divergent boundary.

Which boundaries slide past each other?

Which earthquake waves are fastest?

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