Earth Science Test, Thursday

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?