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Chapter 03 Test bank: Near-Earth Objects
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Complete the concept map displayed below by selecting the
correct response from the answers provided.
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32. Which impact is thought to be responsible for the
extinction of the dinosaurs?
33. Tunguska
34. Meteor Crater
35. Chicxulub
36. Chelyabinsk
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Section: 03.05 Beware of Flying Rocks
Topic: Characteristics of Craters
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Topic: Impact Hazards
Topic: Predicting and Preventing Impact Events
Topic: Types of Near-Earth Objects and Their Potential for Impacts
Chapter 05 Test bank: Earthquakes
Student:
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5. What is an earthquake?
6. a release of energy
7. a seismic wave
8. a fault
1. recurrence interval
2. fault interval
3. epicenter interval
1. strike-slip
2. dip-slip
3. transverse
1. epicenter
2. focus
3. seismic gap
1. P waves
2. S waves
3. surface waves
13. What does Richter earthquake magnitude measure?
1. Alaska
2. California
3. in the Rockies
1. P-waves; solids only; S-waves; solids, liquids, or gases.
2. S-waves; solids, liquids, and gases; P-waves; liquids only.
3. P-waves; solids, liquids or gases; S-waves; solids only.
4. S-waves; solids only; P-waves; solids, liquids, or gases.
5. None of these choices are correct.
Read the following exert from a USGS report concerning a
recent earthquake and answer this question.
Special Report: The Hector Mine Earthquake, 10/16/1999
A M7.1 earthquake occurred at 2:46 a.m. local time on
10/16/1999.
The event was located in a remote, sparsely-populated part of
the Mojave Desert of California, approximately 47 miles east-
southeast of Barstow and 32 miles north of Joshua Tree (see
map next page). The initial magnitude estimate of 7.0 was
upgraded to 7.1 on October 18, 1999, based on in-depth
analysis of “teleseismic” data recorded worldwide.
The earthquake occurred on the Lavic Lake fault, one of a
series of north-northwest trending faults through the eastern
Mojave shear zone. Geologists from the U.S. Geological Survey
and Southern California Earthquake Center were able to fly
over the rupture (which is within the Twenty Nine Palms
Marine Base) on the afternoon of October 16 and documented
a 40-km long surface rupture. The aerial photos show an
apparent maximum offset of 3.8-4.7 meters. These preliminary
estimates for both fault length and slip are consistent with
expectations for a magnitude 7.0 earthquake, although the slip
is perhaps somewhat larger than average. The fault is one of a
series of closely spaced, northwest-trending, right-lateral
strike slip faults that traverse this portion of the Mojave
Desert. Together, these faults within what is termed the
Mojave Shear Zone serve to relieve a small portion of the
stresses that build up along the boundary between the Pacific
and North American tectonic plates.
An interesting aspect of the Hector Mine earthquake is that it
occurred only 7 years after the 1992 Landers and Joshua Tree
earthquakes, which occurred on similar faults within the
Mojave Shear Zone. This apparent clustering of earthquakes
may be purely coincidental, but scientists are conducting
research to see if this kind of earthquake behavior is typical of
this region. That is, perhaps many of the Mojave Shear Zone
faults produce earthquakes within a short time interval
(perhaps spanning several hundred or more years), followed by
several thousands of years of quiescence.
23. What is the current hypothesis scientists are
investigating with regard to this fault system?
24. Earthquake magnitudes determined from fault-slip
and teleseismic observations are similar.
25. Strike-slip faults in the Mojave Shear Zone relieve
stress along the North American and Pacific plates.
26. Earthquakes in this region occur in clusters.
27. This is a region of quiescence.
Use the following map related to the December 24th, 2004
Sumatra earthquake to answer this question.
1. Normal fault
2. Reverse fault
3. Strike-slip
Analyze the table below that shows USGS data for earthquake
zones in Alaska and use it to answer this question.
Three seismograms for a single earthquake with an epicenter
in Columbia are shown below. The data are from stations that
were at very different distances from the epicenter. Arrows
denote arrival of P and S waves. Note: Vertical scales are not
all the same.
31. Suppose you were near the epicenter and felt the
Earth move as if you were in the ocean. What type of
seismic wave would you have experienced?
32. P-wave
33. S-wave
34. Surface wave