Chapter 6 – “Earthquakes” – p. 160 – 197 - Study Guide – p. 194

Test Format

True / False – 5

Matching – 5

Multiple Choice – 10

Essay – 4 of 5

Terms and Themes

Stress

Hanging wall

Footwall

Anticline

Syncline

Plateau

Earthquake

Focus

Epicenter

P wave

S wave

Surface wave

seismograph

seismogram

friction

liquifaction

aftershock

tsunami

base-isolated buildings

Themes

- Types of stress

- Tension

- Compression

- Shearing

- Types of faults and their associated stress

- Normal fault

- Reverse fault

- strike-slip fault

- Order of seismic waves to reach a seismograph

- How do geologists measure and compare earthquakes? What does each scale measure? How else do these scales compare?

- Mercalli Scale

- Richter Scale

- Moment Magnitude Scale

- Four instruments geologists use to monitor faults

- Tiltmeters - creep meters

- laser-ranging devices - GPS satellites

- Possible effects of earthquakes

- Why is it important to monitor earthquakes? Faults?

- What should you do in an earthquake?

- Why is it so hard to predict earthquakes?