UNIT TEST d.

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SECOND QUARTER SCINCE 8 10. How do faults produce earthquake?
a. Energy from inside the Earth makes the ground move, once friction is overcome, a
fault slips producing earthquake.
Name: Grade & Section: b. Magma and lava causes the ground to spread producing faults.
c. Molten rock materials accumulate and go out along the fault producing
earthquake.
1. Why can geologists not predict earthquakes? d. Tectonic plates collide forming volcanoes and causing earthquakes.
a. Earthquakes depend on the weather, which is unpredictable. 11. A downward movement of the fault planes is capable of producing a tsunami.
b. Geologists actually can predict when earthquakes occur a. true b. false
c. Activities along fault lines are unpredictable. 12. PAGASA is the government agency tasked in monitoring earthquakes and volcanic
d. Earthquakes are manmade, not natural. activities.
2. Which of the following choices best describes a tsunami? a. true b. false
a. Buildings and roads on the Earth's surface that are shaken and knocked around 13. When an earthquake happens, the effects are greater in the areas away from the focus.
until they a. true b. false
collapse 14. Wind speed is greater than 200km/h
b. A portion of the ground that loosens and slides downhill during an earthquake a. super typhoon b. typhoon c. tropical storm d. tropical
c. The shaking of the ground that liquefies water-saturated sediment, depression
causing the ground to move 15. Which comet is often considered the most famous?
like a liquid a. Holly's comet b. Halley's comet c. Giotto's comet
d. A huge sea wave resembling a large rising tide that arises from an ocean 16. What is the asteroid belt?
earthquake a. An area between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where most asteroids are found
3. The natural shaking of the earth due to the release as rocks move along a fault. b. A belt of rocks across a planet
a. fault b. frequency c. earthquake d. coverage c. A belt of rocks crossing the sun
4. This is the point where an earthquake originates.
a. epicenter b. focus c. earthquake d. tsunami
5. The location on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
a. epicenter b. focus c. earthquake d. tsunami
6. Intensity is expressed in ______.
a. Roman numerals b. Hindu-Arabic numerals c. both a and d. in any way
you like it
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7. it is an instrument used to measure the amount of energy released by an earthquake.
a. seisnograpah b. microscope c. seismograph d. 18 20
stenograph
8. As you go away from the earthquake focus, the intensity ______.
a. increases b. decreases c. does not change
9. Which of the following differentiates intensity from magnitude? Magnitude is ____. 19
a. a measure of how strong an earthquake is.
b. an instrument that measures earthquake.
c. expressed using roman numerals.