Earthquakes and Earth's Interior 

magnitudes
Multiple Choice modes of travel
velocities
1. The location on the surface directly above the earthquake foci
focus is called the ____________. sizes
ephemeral
epitaph 6. Which one of the following regions has the greatest amount of
epicenter seismic activity?
the circum-Pacific belt
epicycle
the eastern United States
epinode
central Europe
2. The cool, rigid layer of Earth that includes the entire crust as southern Russia
well as the uppermost mantle is called the ____________. the central Atlantic basin
asthenospher
e
7. In areas where unconsolidated materials are saturated with
lithosphere water, earthquakes can turn stable soil into a fluid during a
oceanic crust phenomenon called ____________.
Moho localization
lower crust liquefaction
lithification
3. Which earthquake body wave has the greatest velocity? libation
P wave leaching
S wave
8. The epicenter of an earthquake is located using the distances
4. The belt from about 105 to 140 degrees away from an from a minimum of ____________ seismic stations.
earthquake where no P waves are recorded is known as the three
____________.
four
reflective zone
five
Moho zone
six
low velocity zone
seven
shadow zone
absent zone 9. The adjustments of materials that follow a major earthquake
often generate smaller earthquakes called ____________.
5. The difference in ____________ of P and S waves provides a tremors
method for determining the epicenter of an earthquake.
 surface
waves 14 Within Earth, between the depths of 660 kilometers and 2900
body waves . kilometers, is located a layer called the __________ or lower
mantle.
aftershocks
foreshocks troposphere

10 Which of the earthquake body waves cannot be transmitted exosphere

. through fluids?
P wave asthenosphere
S wave
mesosphere
11 An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 releases about
. ____________ times more energy than one with a magnitude macrosphere
of 5.5.
10 Earthquakes and Earth's Interior 
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True or False
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40 1 .  Earthquakes with a Richter magnitude less than eight are
50 usually not felt by humans. 

12 Earthquake epicenters are most closely correlated with

____________.  True
.
population centers
 False
continental interiors
plate boundaries 2 .  Most of our knowledge of Earth's interior comes from the
high latitudes study of earthquakes. 
continental shelves
 True
13 The __________ is based on the amplitude of the largest
. seismic wave recorded on a seismogram.
 False
Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale
dynamic scale 3 . Earthquake body waves are divided into two types called
Richter scale primary (P) waves and secondary (S) waves. 
moment magnitude
none of the above  True
  False  False

4 .  No reliable method of short-range earthquake prediction 9 .      The lithosphere is situated below the asthenosphere. 
has yet been devised. 

 True
 True
 False
 False

5 . Fluids (gases and liquids) cannot transmit P waves. 

10 .       Earth's inner core is a solid metallic sphere. 

 True
 True
 False
 False
6 .  P waves arrive at a recording station after S waves. 
11 . The mantle is solid because both P and S waves travel
through it. 
 True

 False  True

7 . The boundary that separates Earth's crust from the  False

underlying mantle is known as the shadow discontinuity. 
12 . To locate an epicenter, the distance from three or more
different seismic stations must be known. 
 True

 False  True

8 . Most earthquakes occur along faults associated with plate  False

boundaries. 
13 . The farther a station is from an earthquake, the greater
the difference in arrival times of the P and S waves. 
 True

 True
  False

14 . The continental crust is mostly made of granitic rocks. 

 True

 False

15 . Earthquakes in the central and eastern United States

occur more frequently than along the global plate boundary
areas. 

 True

 False

16 . Over 82 percent of Earth's volume is contained in the

mantle. 

 True

 False

17 . The moment magnitude of an earthquake is derived from

the amount of displacement that occurs along a fault. 

 True

 False