Earthquakes
What is the shaking of Earth’s surface caused by the release of energy along Earth’s crust?
What is an earthquake?
What is the opening in Earth’s crust that releases molten rock?
What is a volcano?
What is used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake?
What is a seismograph?
What are the sections of Earth’s crust that can cause earthquakes and volcanoes?
What are tectonic plates?
Name one negative effect of earthquakes.
What is destruction of buildings?
What is the point on Earth’s surface that marks the center of an earthquake?
What is the epicenter?
What is molten rock called when it is under Earth’s surface?
What is magma?
What do scientists call the waves produced during an earthquake?
What are seismic waves?
What happens when tectonic plates move?
What can cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions?
What is one positive result of earthquakes?
What is the creation of new landforms?
What instrument measures the strength of the seismic waves caused by an earthquake?
What is a seismograph?
What is molten rock called when it is on Earth’s surface?
What is lava?
What device can help predict earthquakes?
What is a seismometer?
What can the movement of tectonic plates create on land?
What are mountains?
What can happen to the landscape after a volcanic eruption?
What is the alteration of land?
What scale measures the strength of an earthquake from 1 to 10?
What is the Richter scale?
Name a positive result of volcanoes.
What is the creation of new land?
How do scientists determine the location of an earthquake’s epicenter?
What is triangulation?
What type of boundary occurs when two tectonic plates slide past each other?
What is a transform boundary?
How can living near an earthquake zone affect building designs?
What is they must be designed to withstand earthquakes?
Name a large ocean wave caused by earthquakes that occur under or near water.
What is a tsunami?
What can form as a result of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes?
What are mountains?
What type of data do seismographs provide?
What is the strength of seismic waves?
What triggers earthquakes along faults?
What is the release of energy?
What can both earthquakes and volcanoes do to the land?
What is create and destroy land?