Earthquakes
San Francisco
Quito/Volcanoes
Miscellaneous
Location
100

The scale used to measure earthquakes

What is the Richter Scale?

100

The state where San Francisco is located

What is California?

100

The name of Quito's volcano

What is Guagua Pichincha?

100

The capital city of Canada

What is Ottawa?

100

A half of a sphere is referred to as this

What is a hemisphere?

200

The name of the part of the earth we walk on

What is the crust?

200

There is often a lot of this phenomenon in SF that makes it hard to see

What is fog?

200

The name of the country where Quito is situated

What is Ecuador?

200

The most eastern province of Canada

What is Newfoundland?

200

The parallel at latitude 0 degrees

What is the Equator?

300

Most major earthquakes happen in this area

What is the Ring of Fire?

300
The earthquake that happened during the year ?, was 52 seconds longer than the one in 1989

What is 1906?

300

Mudslides are caused by this

What is melting glacier ice?

300
The name of the newest territory in Canada

What is Nunavut?

300

These lines measure longitude

What are meridians?

400

The point of origin of an earthquake

What is the focus?

400

The earthquake that happened at the turn of the 20th century also caused this which destroyed many homes and buildings

What are fires?

400

The molten material beneath or within the Earth's crust

What is magma?

400

The last time the Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley Cup

What is 1993?

400

These lines measure latitudes

What are parallels?

500

The middle layer inside the earth where magmatic rock is found

What is the mantle?

500

Name one of the 2 fault lines running under SF

What is the San Andreas or the Hayward fault lines?

500

When a volcano is in a state of rest or inactivity

What is dormant?

500

This tasty, delicious dish was created in Quebec and now can be bought in many places around the world

What is poutine?

500

The Prime Meridian goes through this English city?

What is Greenwich?