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Earth Science
Jeopardy
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Forces in
Earth's Crust
Earthquakes
and Seismic
Waves
Monitoring
Earthquakes
Earthquake
Safety
Vocabulary
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Forces in Earth's Crust for 200
A force that acts on a rock to change
its shape or volume is called
________________.
Forces in Earth's Crust for 400
Anticlines and synclines are two types
of ______________________.
Forces in Earth's Crust for 600
Which stress force pulls on the crust and
stretches rock?
Forces in Earth's Crust for 800
A break in the crest where slabs slip past
each other is a(n) ___________.
Forces in Earth's Crust for 1000
This is the type of fault that forms when the
hanging wall moves upward past the
footwall.
Earthquakes and Seismic Waves for
200
This type of seismic waves arrives first
at a seismograph.
Earthquakes and Seismic Waves for
400
The point beneath Earth’s surface
where the crust breaks and triggers
an earthquake is called the _______.
Earthquakes and Seismic Waves for
600
The ______________ is a rating
system that estimates the total energy
released by an earthquake.
Earthquakes and Seismic Waves for
800
The point on Earth’s surface directly
above an earthquake’s focus is called
the ____________________.
Earthquakes and Seismic Waves for
1000
S waves arrive at a seismograph ________
P waves.
Monitoring Earthquakes for 200
An instrument used to measure and
record ground movements during an
earthquake is called a(n) _________.
Monitoring Earthquakes for 400
This instrument is used to measure the
tilting or raising of ground.
Monitoring Earthquakes for 600
This instrument is used to measure
changes in elevation and horizontal
movement from space.
Monitoring Earthquakes for 800
This instrument is used to measure
horizontal movements using a laser beam.
Monitoring Earthquakes for 1000
This instrument is used to measure changes
in horizontal movement of the ground
using a stretched wire.
Earthquake Safety for 200
This is the process occurs when an
earthquake’s shaking turns loose soil
into mud.
Earthquake Safety for 400
Water displaced by an undersea
earthquake may produce _________.
Earthquake Safety for 600
A base-isolated building design
______________ the amount of
energy that reaches the building
during an earthquake.
Earthquake Safety for 800
This is what people should do when an
earthquake occurs and they are
indoors.
Earthquake Safety for 1000
Sometimes, buildings that are weakened by
an earthquake could fall if a(n) _________
occurs in the same area.
Vocabulary for 200
The type of stress force that produces
a strike-slip fault is _____________.
Vocabulary for 400
Compression, tension, and shearing
are three types of ____________ that
cause changes in the crust.
Vocabulary for 600
A large area of flat land that is elevated
high above sea level is known as this.
Vocabulary for 800
The type of stress that pushes masses
of rock sideways in opposite
directions is ______________.
Vocabulary for 1000
By drawing circles to show distances from
three seismograph stations, geologist can
locate the ____________ of an
earthquake.
Capture the Chapter for 200
______________ of the crust produces
anticlines and synclines.
Capture the Chapter for 400
This is what the Mercalli scale
measures.
Capture the Chapter for 600
This is what the Richter scale measures.
Capture the Chapter for 800
This is what the moment magnitude scale
measures.
Capture the Chapter for 1000
This is why it is difficult for geologists to
predict earthquakes.
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Final Jeopardy
Using the Seismic Wave Arrival Times chart on page 176
of your textbook answer this statement. This is the
distance from a seismograph the epicenter of an
earthquake is if the P wave arrives at 3 min, 40 s and the
S wave arrives at 7 min, 0 s
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