Stresses
Faults
Labs
Famous Earthquakes
Measuring Earthquakes
100
Factors that cause earthqukes are ___________ in the crust.
What is stress?
100
Stress in the crust produces this.
What is a fault boundary?
100
What did we use to create seismic waves?
What is a slinky?
100
The city in Wisconsin where an earthquake was recorded in 1909?
What is Beloit?
100
The most common scale used to rate the size of the seismic waves?
What is the Richter Scale?
200
Stress that pulls the crust in two different directions.
What is tension stress?
200
The fault that is created from tension stress.
What is a divergent fault?
200
Name a type of wave we created in the lab.
What is a compression wave or a shear wave?
200
Name the city where the first earthquake was captured by photography. (hint: in California)
What is San Francisco?
200
Records the ground movements caused by seismic waves as they move through the Earth.
What is a seismograph?
300
Stress the pushes the crust until it folds or breaks.
What is compression stress?
300
Fault that is created from compression stress.
What is a convergent fault?
300
Name the type of stress simulated when we pulled the airhead ends apart?
What is tension stress?
300
Name the state where the largest earthquake in the United States was recorded.
What is Alaska?
300
The point on the surface or crust directly above the focus.
What is the epicenter?
400
Stress that pushes a mass of rock in two opposite directions.
What is shearing stress?
400
Fault that is created from shearing stress.
What is a transform fault?
400
What is the stress we simulated when we pushed the ends of the tootsie roll and snickers together?
What is compression stress?
400
The largest recorded earthquake in the world happened in 1960 near the country of...
What is Chile?
400
The point beneath Earth’s surface where rock that is under stress breaks, triggering an earthquake.
What is the focus?
500
Give the name of a famous transform fault boundary that is located in California.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
500
Name a mountain range created along a convergent fault boundary.
What are the Himalayan Mountains?
500
What is the stress we created when we pushed the sides of the graham cracker against each other?
What is shearing stress?
500
The magnitude of the highest recorded earthquake in the world.
What is 9.5?
500
Waves that move more slowly than P waves and S waves, but they produce the most severe ground movements.
What are surface waves?
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