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Test Bank For Physical Geology Earth Revealed 9th Edition Diane Carlson Download
Test Bank For Physical Geology Earth Revealed 9th Edition Diane Carlson Download
Chapter 07
Earthquakes
1. As a dense oceanic plate begins to bend down into a trench, it stresses slightly at the top of
the bend and normal faults occur.
TRUE
2. P-waves are compressional waves in which the rock vibrates back and forth parallel to the
direction of wave propagation.
TRUE
3. Earthquakes occur more or less uniformly throughout the Earth in the recent past.
FALSE
4. The elastic rebound theory involves the sudden release of progressively stored energy in
rocks.
TRUE
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7. Small earthquakes following the main surface wave arrival are called foreshocks.
FALSE
8. The point on the earth's surface immediately above the focus is the seismic center.
FALSE
9. The time interval between the first arrival of a P-wave and the first arrival of an S-wave
increases with distance from the focus of an earthquake.
TRUE
10. Body waves are seismic waves that travel through the Earth's interior.
TRUE
11. By studying seismograms of an earthquake on a distant fault, geologists can tell which
way rocks moved along that fault.
TRUE
12. A seismogram is a recording device that produces a permanent record of earth motion.
FALSE
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16. An earthquake of Richter magnitude 5 releases 32 times more energy than an earthquake
of magnitude 4.
TRUE
17. During an earthquake, buildings built on hard rock are damaged more than buildings built
on soft sediment.
FALSE
20. The most important concentration of earthquakes in the world is the Mediterranean-
Himalayan Belt.
FALSE
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21. A(n) _____ is a trembling or shaking of the ground caused by the sudden release of
energy stored in rocks beneath the Earth's surface.
A. tsunami
B. volcano
C. rupture
D. rumble
E. earthquake
22. Rupture begins at the _____ and then spreads rapidly along the fault plane.
A. epicenter
B. point of contact
C. plate boundary
D. focus
E. shear plane
24. The __, the distance between the epicenter and focus, for earthquakes is about 670 km.
A. p-wave
B. first arrivals
C. travel-time curve
D. depth of focus
E. Love wave
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27. _____ maps are useful for assessing how different areas respond to seismic waves and
provide valuable information for earthquake planning.
A. Focus
B. Intensity
C. Epicenter
D. Magnitude
E. Intermediate
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30. _____ waves tend to be incredibly destructive to buildings because they produce much
ground movement and take a long time to pass.
A. Body
B. Love
C. Rayleigh
D. S
E. P
31. The point within the earth where seismic waves first originate is the _____.
A. scarp
B. epicenter
C. focus
D. trace
E. origin
32. The ______ is the most famous example of a right lateral transform fault.
A. New Madrid Seismic Zone of Arkansas
B. San Andreas Fault in California
C. East African Rift
D. Choctaw Fault of Oklahoma
E. Dead Sea Rift
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33. Perhaps 90 percent of the destruction in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake was caused by
____.
A. fires
B. building collapse
C. landslides
D. soil displacement
E. tsunamis
34. The greatest loss of life in the 1964 southern Alaska earthquake was from _________.
A. landslides
B. tsunamis
C. fires
D. building collapse
E. soil displacement
35. In the elastic rebound theory, earthquakes are caused by the sudden release of
progressively stored _____ in rocks.
A. seismic waves
B. strain
C. stress
D. tectonism
E. ductile behavior
36. A _____ is the first wave to arrive at a recording station following an earthquake.
A. Love wave
B. Rayleigh wave
C. S-wave
D. P-wave
E. surface wave
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37. ____ are seismic waves that travel through the Earth's interior, spreading out from the
focus in all directions.
A. X-waves
B. R-waves
C. Surface waves
D. Refracted waves
E. Body waves
38. ____ are earthquake waves that cause the most property damage.
A. Surface waves
B. P-waves
C. X-waves
D. S-waves
E. Body waves
40. The time interval between the first arrival of P-waves and the first arrival of S-waves ____
with distance from the focus of an earthquake.
A. does not change
B. cannot be measured
C. increases
D. varies irregularly
E. decreases
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42. On the modified mercalli intensity scale the maximum value is _______.
A. XVI
B. XV
C. XIV
D. XIII
E. XII
43. A series of earthquakes that occurred near _____ in 1811-1812 were the most widely felt
earthquakes to occur in recorded history.
A. New Madrid, Missouri
B. Plymouth, Massachusetts
C. Charleston, South Carolina
D. San Francisco, California
E. Attica, New York
44. Although large earthquakes are rare in the central and eastern United States, when they do
occur they tend to be very destructive because _______.
A. they occur infrequently
B. the crust there is cool and brittle
C. more people live in that region
D. the faults in that region are older and larger
E. the crust in that region is thicker
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45. The effects of ground motion caused by an earthquake do not include _____.
A. permanent land surface displacement
B. fire
C. volcanism
D. landslides
E. soil liquefaction
47. First motion studies of mid-ocean ridges show that the faults there are ____, and parallel
to the rift valley.
A. subduction
B. strike-slip motion
C. compression
D. deep focus earthquakes
E. normal
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51. If the measured amplitude of vibration of a rock is 1 cm for a magnitude 4 earthquake then
the rocks will move ______ during a magnitude 5 earthquake.
A. 2 cm
B. 4 cm
C. 8 cm
D. 10 cm
E. 20 cm
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53. Richter scale values above 7 are not accurate. The ______ scale is a more objective
method of measuring the energy of a large earthquake.
A. seismic trace
B. moment magnitude
C. P-wave amplitude
D. Modified Mercalli
E. gravity meter
54. For most of the 20th century earthquake magnitude was reported on the _______ scale, a
scale that has never exceeded a magnitude 8.6.
A. moment magnitude
B. surface-wave
C. Richter
D. Gutenberg
E. Modified Mercalli
55. _____ earthquakes probably occur along older faults that are no longer at plate
boundaries, for example the New Madrid Missouri earthquakes of 1811-1812.
A. Interplate
B. Normal
C. Intraplate
D. Transform
E. Subduction
56. Deep rocks behave as _____ material under stress rather than breaking.
A. liquid
B. brittle
C. ductile
D. isotropic
E. vacuum
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Test Bank for Physical Geology Earth Revealed 9th Edition Diane Carlson Download
Chapter 07 - Earthquakes
59. _____ can occur when water-saturated soil turns from a solid to a liquid as a result of an
earthquake.
A. Creep
B. Liquefaction
C. Solifluction
D. Soil collapse
E. Gelatinization
60. ___ stations are the minimum needed to determine the location of an earthquake
epicenter.
A. Five
B. Two
C. Three
D. Four
E. Six
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