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The name for when all the continents were stuck together.
What is Pangea?
100
This is a scale used to measure earthquakes
What is Richter Scale?
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the instrument used to measure earthquakes
What is a siesmograph?
100
how can you make a building earthquake-proof?
Use criss cross bars, strong foundations, the lower the better, building must be able to sway, use wood not bricks and mortar, etc
200
What is the term for how the continents moved apart?
What is continental drift?
200
This happens when two plates rub together.
What is an earthquake?
200
The fault where land slides next to each other but both stay at the same level.
What is strike-slip fault?
200
The three types of faults.
What are Normal, reverse, and strike-slip?
300
An underwater earthquake that causes this type of big wave.
What is a tsunami?
300
The country that suffered from a major tsunami in 2011.
What is Japan?
300
Surface waves move the land like this.
What is side to side?
300
Reverse faults move like this.
What is towards each other, one piece moves above another?
400
the place where two plates meet.
What is a fault line?
400
The fastest seismic wave.
What is a Primary Wave?
400
Which building would be safer: a tall brick sky scraper or a small wooden house
What is a small wooden house?
400
Name one place in the US that has a lot of earthquakes
What is California?
500
Number of fault types?
What is 3?
500
How do we know the continents were once connected?
What is the shape fits together, similar animal fossils, or rock layers?
500
How can islands form in the ocean?
What is a volcano?
500
The magnitude of the earthquake in Japan.
What is 9.5?
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