Science Review - Earthquakes
Grade 6 short quiz about earthquakes
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- Originates from volcanic activity
- This area is likely to experience shaking or sliding of the ground.
- What happened to rock layers during day time?
- Scale used to measure magnitude
- Forces that push rock layers from opposite sides
- Refers to the strength of an earthquake and the damage effects to people
- Who is the developer of Richter Scale in 1935?
- it is the trembling of the Earth's surface.
- What happens to the rock layers during night time?
- What force pertains to the cooling and shrinking of rock layers in the crust.
- Result of the rapid release of a great amount of energy from its source.
- Instrument used to measure magnitude.
- Sudden displacement of the earth's crust occurs along the fault or break in the rock.
- Point on the surface directly above the focus.
- An intensity scale developed by Giuseppe Mercalli in 1902.
- This effect can leave people homeless and damaged properties are incurred.
- This effect cause rock layers to sink or move down while the other slab moves up.
- The earth's crust shakes and the strength of the movement depends on the distance origin
- Big waves that can move hundreds of kilometers from the ocean and flow into land
- The tremor may force water, mud, and sand through these cracks due to pressure.
- Strong earthquake shocks may cut electrical wirings and fuel pipes -as a sources of
- Masses of rocks slip down from highlands, flattening the highlands.
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