1. Types and causes of Earthquakes
Jeopardy
Shaky Vocabulary
Explosive Vocabulary
Types and causes of Earthquakes
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Final Jeopardy

2. What are earthquakes? Shaky Vocabulary 100
These are caused by sudden movement along a fault.
What are earthquakes?

3. Shaky Vocabulary
200
The point underground where rocks first being to move.
What is the focus?

4. Shaky Vocabulary
300
The point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus.
What is the epicenter?

5. Shaky Vocabulary
400
A process in which shaking causes soil to act like a liquid.
What is liquefaction?

6. Shaky Vocabulary
500
The force exerted when an object presses on, pulls on, or pushes against
another object.
What is stress?

7. Explosive Vocabulary
100
A fracture or break in Earth’s lithosphere along which blocks of rock move past each other.
What is a fault?

8. Explosive Vocabulary
200
Mountains that form as an oceanic plate sinks under the edge of a continental plate or as two continents collide.
What are folded mountains?

9. Explosive Vocabulary
300
An opening in Earth’s crust through which molten rock, rock fragments, and hot gases erupt.
What is a volcano?

10. Explosive Vocabulary
400
Volcanic rock fragments that contain holes and tunnels left by escaping gases.
What are cinders?

11. Explosive Vocabulary
500
A type of hot spring that shoots water into the air.
What is a geyser?

12. Types and causes of Earthquakes
100
The Aleutian Trench is a subduction zone. Most of the earthquakes likely to occur in this area along this kind of fault.
What are reverse faults?

13. Types and causes of Earthquakes
200
This structure is most likely to have base isolators.
What a tall office building?

14. Types and causes of Earthquakes 300
One of these seismic wave types causes the most ground motion to occur.
A. primary waves C. tertiary waves
B. secondary waves D. surface waves
What are surface waves?

15. Types and causes of Earthquakes 400
The strength of an earthquake depends in part on the
speed at which blocks of rock move
types of seismic waves it produces
distance over which blocks of rock move
number of aftershocks it produces
What is C, the distance over which blocks of rock move?

16. Types and causes of Earthquakes 500
Using the diagrams to the right, the amount of time that passed between the arrival of the first P wave and that of the first S wave at Station A.
What is about 3.5 minutes?

17. What is secondary waves travel more slowly than primary waves,
More on Earthquakes
100
This is why secondary waves arrive later than primary waves.
What is secondary waves travel more slowly than primary waves,
Sherlock.

18. What is a strike-slip fault?
More on Earthquakes
200
The types of fault represented by the diagram A:
What is a strike-slip fault?

19. More on Earthquakes 300 What is a normal fault?
The type of fault represented by diagram C.
What is a normal fault?

20. More on Earthquakes 400 What is a reverse fault?
The type of fault represented by diagram B.
What is a reverse fault?

21. More on Earthquakes
500
The direction of stress that caused each type of fault.

22. Random
Facts
100
No, because the plates scrape past each other.
Is California going to fall into the ocean if there is a big earthquake there?

23. Random Facts 200 What is a seismograph?
This has a heavy weight that hangs from a spring. When the ground moves, the weight stays
still while the spring absorbs the movement to record only up and down movement
What is a seismograph?

24. What is sedimentary rock?
Random Facts
300
Absence of this type of rock indicates that there never has been water on the moon.
What is sedimentary rock?

25. What is one six of Earth’s gravitational pull?
Random Facts
400
The strength of Gravitational pull on the moon compared to the Earth.
What is one six of Earth’s gravitational pull?

26. Random Facts
500
The woman who split the atom.
Who was Lise Meitner?

27. Metric system
100
Kg in 1000 grams.
What is 1 Kilogram?

28. Metric system
200
Units of density (use cm3 and grams)
What is g/cm3?

29. Metric system
300
Another name .001 second.
What is a millisecond?

30. What is five thousand meters?
Metric system
400
The number of meters in five kilometers.
What is five thousand meters?

31. What is a nanometer? Metric system 500
The name for one billionth of a meter
What is a nanometer?

32. Final Jeopardy
Write a short paragraph that contrasts a magnitude 7.5 earthquake with a magnitude 2.5 earthquake. Be sure to discuss the energy released and the damage caused by each earthquake.

33. Sample: A 7. 5 magnitude earthquake can cause large amounts of damage
Sample: A 7.5 magnitude earthquake can cause large amounts of damage. It can bend railroad tracks and destroy many structures. A 7.5 magnitude earthquake releases 32 • 32 • 32 • 32 • 32, or about 33.5 million, times as much energy as a magnitude 2.5 earthquake. Magnitude 2.5 earthquakes might be noticed by some people but usually are detected only by seismographs.