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Geology Chapter 10 Test


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1: Strike slip faults involve lateral motion between two rock bodies.
True
False
2: A thrust fault results when the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
True
False
3: The San Andreas Fault is a thrust fault.
True
False
4: Tectonic creep refers to the slow, steady slipping of rocks in a fault.
True
False
5: The largest recorded movement of a fault during an earthquake was 55 meters (180 ft).
True
False
6: In secondary waves, particles oscillate back and forth at right angles to the direction of wave travel.
True
False
7: The first waves from an earthquake to arrive at a seismometer are the surface waves.
True
False
8: The first seismograph was invented in China in 132 A.D.
True
False
9: The printed output from a seismometer is called a seismic wavetrack.
True
False
10: The second wave type to arrive at a seismograph are...
Primary (p-waves)
Secondary (s-waves)
Surface waves
11: Earthquakes of magnitude less than ______ are not usually felt by people.
7.9
4.0
2.9
3.4
12: Great earthquakes of magnitude 9.0 or greater occur once every 20 months.
True
False
13: The exact timing of earthquakes can be predicted.
True
False
14: This earthquake killed more people than any other earthquake in history.
Indian Ocean Earthquake, 2004
San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
Shaanxi Earthquake, 1556
New Madrid Earthquake, 1812
15: Ninety percent of the world's earthquakes occur here.
Pacific Ocean basin and margins
Atlantic Ocean basin and margins
California
16: There are over 150,000 earthquakes recorded every year.
True
False
17: The point at which rock breaks, causing a fault, is known as
the elastic limit
the fracture point
the rock strength index

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