GEO Ch 16
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Both P waves and S waves can pass through ___ | show 🗑
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| Earthquake waves propagate most rapidly through ___ | show 🗑
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| show | moment magnitude
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| The greatest loss of life in the 1964 southern Alaska earthquake was from ____ | show 🗑
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| _____ would be associated with Benioff zones | show 🗑
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| show | travel-time curve
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| The point within the earth where seismic waves first originate is the ____ | show 🗑
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| show | Rayleigh
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| _____ are seismic waves that travel through the Earth's interior, spreading out from the focus in all directions | show 🗑
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| On the modified Mercalli intensity scale the maximum value is _____ | show 🗑
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| _____-waves are the slowest body waves | show 🗑
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| show | P-wave
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| ___ earthquakes probably occur along older faults that are no longer at plate boundaries, for example the New Madrid Missouri earthquakes of 1811-1812 | show 🗑
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| In the elastic rebound theory, earthquakes are caused by the sudden release of progressively stored ___ in rocks | show 🗑
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| show | tsunami
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| Perhaps 90 percent of the destruction in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake was caused by ___ | show 🗑
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| Although large earthquakes are rare in the central and eastern United States, when they do occur they tend to be very destructive because | show 🗑
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| show | focus
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| ____ are earthquake waves that cause the most property damage | show 🗑
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| show | brittle behavior
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| show | the Circumpacific belt
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| The paper record of an earthquake is a ___ | show 🗑
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| show | volcanism
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| show | Seismic
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| _____ maps are useful for assessing how different areas respond to seismic waves and provide valuable information for earthquake planning | show 🗑
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| show | Shallow
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| show | produce most of the damage to buildings during earthquakes
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| _____ can occur when water-saturated soil turns from a solid to a liquid as a result of an earthquake | show 🗑
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| show | ductile
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| ___ stations are the minimum needed to determine the location of an earthquake epicenter | show 🗑
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| show | increases
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| show | Richter
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| show | New Madrid, Missouri
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| ____ is a measure of an earthquake's effect on people and buildings | show 🗑
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| Medium and deep focus earthquakes occur along _____ | show 🗑
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| show | San Andreas Fault in California
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| show | collapse of minerals into denser forms
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| show | 800 km/hr
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| Which of the following is not used to aid in earthquake prediction | show 🗑
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| Deep focus earthquakes occur at a maximum depth of _____ | show 🗑
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