2. Science Jeopardy 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 Chapter 11Seismic WavesFaultsPotpourriHayden Trivia Final Jeopardy

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4. Question Answer Chapter 11 - 100 ANSWER: These are the people who study earthquakes and seismic waves. QUESTION: Who are seismologists?

5. Question Answer Chapter 11-200 ANSWER: These type of boundaries often create very deep earthquakes. QUESTION: What are subduction zones? (continental-oceanic convergence) Explain – Where on Earth? – Intensity?

6. Question Answer Chapter 11-300 ANSWER: This is the scale used to measure the intensity of an earthquake. QUESTION: What is the Mercalli Scale? Range? Determined? Quant/Qual.?

7. Question Answer Chapter 11-400 ANSWER: These are the names of locations that have frequent earthquakes but are not on plate boundaries. QUESTION: What are intraplate earthquakes? Region of North America?

8. Question Answer Chapter 11-500 ANSWER: These are giant seismic ocean waves created by an underwater earthquake. QUESTION: What are tsunamis?

9. Question Answer ANSWER: These waves travel fastest of the three types of seismic waves. QUESTION: What are P-waves? Damaging? Seismic Waves-100

10. Question Answer Seismic Waves-200 ANSWER: These waves move away from the EPICENTER of an earthquake (not the focus). QUESTION: What are surface waves?

11. Question Answer Seismic Waves-300 ANSWER: This is the type of fault found on the west coast of South America. QUESTION: What is reverse fault? Type of forces? How are plates moving? Which plates?

12. Question Answer Seismic Waves-400 ANSWER: These waves would be used to determine Richter Scale magnitude. QUESTION: What are secondary waves? Describes earthquake’s ______? Range? Quan./Qual.?

13. Question Answer Seismic Waves-500 ANSWER: The difference in this can be used to determine the distance from an epicenter. QUESTION: What is arrival time?

14. Question Answer Faults-100 ANSWER: This is the type of fault located in California. QUESTION: What is a transform boundary or strike-slip fault?

15. Question Answer Faults-200 ANSWER: These are the type of forces that cause a normal fault. QUESTION: What are tensional? How are plates moving? Where on Earth? Shallow or deep?

16. Question Answer Faults-300 ANSWER: This is another name for a strike-slip fault and what are the forces involved. QUESTION: What is a transform fault – and shear forces?

17. Question Answer Faults-400 ANSWER: These are the type of forces that cause a reverse fault. QUESTION: What are compressional forces?

18. Question Answer Faults-500 ANSWER: This has been established to monitor earthquakes and warn residents of potential danger. QUESTION: What is the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center?

19. Question Answer Potpourri-100 ANSWER: This is the underground location where an earthquake actually occurs. QUESTION: What is the focus?

20. Question Answer Potpourri-200 ANSWER: This is the process by which we can pinpoint the location of an earthquake using the arrival times of seismic waves. QUESTION: What is triangulation?

21. Question Answer Potpourri-300 ANSWER: This is the place at the surface, above where the earthquake occurred. QUESTION: What is the epicenter?

22. Question Answer Potpouri-400 ANSWER: This is the instrument that measures the magnitude of seismic waves. QUESTION: What is a seismograph or seismometer?

23. Question Answer Potpourri-500 ANSWER: This is the process by which sand and dirt become unstable due to seismic waves disrupting its structure. QUESTION: What is liquefaction?

24. Question Answer HT-100 ANSWER: What you would know about the location of an epicenter by using two seismograph stations. QUESTION: What is two points which the epicenter occurred? (which is why you’d need a third)

25. Question Answer HT-200 ANSWER: Draw two seismograms. Make one from a city near the epicenter and one farther away. QUESTION: Answers will vary – focus on magnitude (height) and difference in arrival times.

26. Question Answer HT-300 ANSWER: This feature is responsible for many of the intraplate earthquakes in the middle of the continental U.S. QUESTION: What is the New Madrid fault?

27. Question Answer HT-400 ANSWER: At the Cascadia Subduction zone, hypothesize about the depth of earthquake focus as you go closer to the coast. QUESTION: Foci get shallower as you get closer to the plate boundary(and deeper as you get farther). Infinite?

28. Question Answer HT-500 ANSWER: This is a possible shortcoming of using the Mercalli Scale. QUESTION: What is the judgments are based on human observation? (they are subjective)

29. Question Answer FINAL JEOPARDY ANSWER: ESSAY: Be able to describe how P & S wave arrival times are used to determine earthquake epicenter location.