Name______________________

Bill Nye

Earthquake Notes

1. Every year there are _______________________ of earthquakes all around the world.
2. The reason we have earthquakes is because the Earths surface is really pretty
_______________.
3. Earths surface is floating on _____________ or ______________ rock.
4. Earths surface is broken into __________ ___________.
5. As the plates move, the plate movement causes cracks, and the cracks are called
______________.
6. The faults can store _____________ like a spring.
7. When energy stored in the plates is released, sometimes we get an ________________.
8. Scientists measure movement of Earths surface with _____________________.
9. Movement of lava makes small ___________________ happen.
10. A normal earthquake is ______________ ______ _____________ that gets released
as the rocks or ground __________________.
11. The ___________________ is the center of the earthquake.
12. The _________________ Scale is a way to compare the size of one earthquake with the
size of another.
13. An earthquake of magnitude 3 has __________ times the ground motion of a
magnitude 1, and it has a lot more energy.