Plates
Quakes
Waves
Faults
100
What type of plate boundary results from plates moving away from one another?
Divergent Boundary
100
This is the surface expression or location of an earthquake.
What is the epicenter?
100
These waves are the first to arrive and move in a compressional manner.
What are P-waves?
100
Normal faults are caused by this type of stress.
What is tensional stress?
200
What boundary is this image depicting?
Transform Boundary
200
This is the measurement that objectively measures the amount of energy that has been released during an earthquake.
What is magnitude?
200
Seismic waves are measured and reported by this instrument.
What is a seismograph?
200
This type of stress is often found at convergent boundaries.
What is compressional stress?
300
What do you call the area where two tectonic plates meet?
Plate Boundary
300
True or False: A high magnitude earthquake is always a high intensity earthquake.
False.
300
These waves are the second to arrive and move in a shearing manner.
What are S-Waves?
300
Normal faults helps to create this geographic feature.
What is a valley (topographic lows)?
400
What layers of the earth are involved in plate tectonics?
Lithosphere & Asthenosphere
400
This is the actual location of the earthquake, usually includes longitude/latitude coordinates and depth.
What is the hypocenter?
400
These waves are the last to arrive and cause the most amount of ground deformation and damage.
What are surface waves (L & R waves)?
400
This image depicts what kind of fault?
What is a right-lateral strike-slip fault?
500
A trench and volcanic island arc would be found at which plate boundary?
Oceanic-Oceanic Convergent Boundary
500
The most destructive earthquakes tend to occur along subduction zones and are referred to as this specific kind of earthquake.
What is a megathrust earthquake?
500
How do body waves allow us to infer that there is a liquid layer in the interior of our planet?
P and S-wave shadow zones
500
This type of fault leads to the thickening of continental crust and increases elevation.
What is reverse/thrust faulting?