Faults
Measuring
Earthquakes
Misc
Mrs. Jeffress
100
Two types of folds
What are anticlines and synclines?
100
Seismograph
What is an instrument used to measure and record ground movements during an earthquake
100
P Waves
What is the seismic wave that arrives first at the seismograph?
100
Stress
What is a force that acts on rocks to change its shape or volume.
100
13
What is Mrs. Jeffress' Lucky Number
200
Fault
What is a break in the crust where slabs slip past each other
200
Moment Magnitude Scale
What is a rating system that estimates the total energy released by an earthquake
200
Focus
What is the point beneath Earth's surface where the crust breaks and triggers an earthquake
200
Tension
What is the stress force that pulls on the crust and stretches rock
200
Traveling out of the country
What is something Mrs. Jeffress has NO DESIRE to do
300
Reverse Fault
What is the type of fault that forms when the hanging wall moves upward past the footwall.
300
Using satellites to measure the movement of faults
What is GPS
300
Liquefaction
What is the process where an earthquakes shaking turns loose soil into mud
300
Plateau
What is a large area of flat land that is elevated high above sea level
300
Fire Fighter
What is what Mrs. Jeffress wanted to be when she was little
400
Shearing
What is the type of stress force that produces strike slip faults
400
Mercalli Scale
What is the measurement of an earthquake using roman numerals, and measures the amount of DAMAGE
400
Tsunami
What is water displaced by and undersea earthquake
400
Drop, Cover, Roll
What can people do during an earthquake to protect themselves if they are indoors
400
7
What is the number of jobs Mrs. Jeffress has had
500
Tension
What is stress that pushes rock in opposite directions
500
Richter Scale
What is the measurement of the size of seismic waves during an earthquake
500
Seismograph
What is the instrument that records ground movement caused by seismic waves
500
Laser ranging device
What detects changes in distance to a reflector.
500
Lions
What is the animal Mrs. Jeffress would be if she could be any animal.
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