Q2 Science Quiz 1

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1. Earthquake is caused by a sudden slip on a fault

2. Tectonic plates are always slowly moving but they get stuck at their
edges due to friction

3. Fault is a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of

rock

4. Faults allow the blocks to move relative to each other.

5. Creep Slow movement of faults relative to each other

6. Energy from Earth's makes the ground move

interior

7. Friction hold the rocks together

8. Normal Fault Occurs when the hanging wall moves down relative to
the foot wall

9. Extension in response from a normal fault

10. Reverse Fault occurs where the hanging wall moves up or is thrust
over the foot wall

11. Thrust fault Another term for reverse fault

12. Compression Reverse fault is common in areas of ____________

13. Strike-slip Fault A fault on which the two blocks slide past one another.

14. Left lateral left blocks moves towards you and the right blocks
strike-slip fault move away

15. right lateral strike right blocks moves towards you and the left blocks
slip fault move away

16. Compressional when two plates are PUSHING TOWARD each other -
Stress squeezes rock causing it to fold or break

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17. Tension Stress When two plates MOVE AWAY from each other - pulls
and stretches rock

18. Shear Stress When two blocks of rock are PUSHING IN OPPOSITE
DIRECTIONS - sliding motion causes rock to break or
change shape

19. Confining Stress the crust BECOMES COMPACT, thus making it look
smaller

20. Sinkhole Can be created from a confining stress

21. Tension Stress Pangea break off into seven continents because of

22. Focus Point where rocks are weakest

23. Focus Spot where first break occurs

24. Focus Origin or the center of earthquake

25. Hypocenter Another term for focus

26. Hypo means under of beneath

27. Epicenter A point on the center of the earthquake which is directly

above the focus of on an earthquake and where vibra-
tions reach first

28. Epicenter Most violet shaking occurs here

29. Epi means surface

30. Magnitude It is the energy released by an earthquake at the focus

31. Intensity It is the strength of an earthquake perceived and felt by

people in a certain locality

32. Seismograph Calculates magnitude from earthquakes recorded

33. Intensity Is generally higher near the epicenter

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