Earthquakes Quiz

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Total cards: 24•Content version: v3•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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Front (Question)

Three types of waves

Back (Answer)

Primary, Secondary, and Surface Waves

Front (Question)

True or false: S-waves can travel through liquids

Back (Answer)

False

Front (Question)

As depth increases…

Back (Answer)

…density increases

Front (Question)

Four types of stress

Back (Answer)

compressive, tension, shear, and torsion stress

Front (Question)

Elastic Rebound is…

Back (Answer)

the sudden release of strain energy

Front (Question)

A fault is…

Back (Answer)

A crack in Earth’s crush where rock has moved

Front (Question)

Object is squeezed or shortened

Back (Answer)

Compressive stress

Front (Question)

Object stretched or lengthened

Back (Answer)

Tension stress

Front (Question)

Object is stretched and pulled in opposite directions

Back (Answer)

Shear stress

#10

Front (Question)

Object is twisted

Back (Answer)

Torsion stress

#11

Front (Question)

What are the two surface waves?

Back (Answer)

Love waves and Rayleigh waves

#12

Front (Question)

Waves that move in a circular motion

Back (Answer)

Rayleigh waves

#13

Front (Question)

Waves that move up and down or side to side

Back (Answer)

Love waves

#14

Front (Question)

Waves that move up and down

Back (Answer)

Primary waves

#15

Front (Question)

Waves that move side to side

Back (Answer)

Secondary waves

#16

Front (Question)

The fastest seismic waves are…

Back (Answer)

Primary waves

#17

Front (Question)

How are Rayleigh waves created?

Back (Answer)

They are created from the cross section of P and S waves

#18

Front (Question)

What are the two body waves?

Back (Answer)

Primary and Secondary waves

#19

Front (Question)

Narrow and shallow quakes are at…

Back (Answer)

Divergent boundaries

#20

Front (Question)

Deep and wide quakes are at…

Back (Answer)

Convergent boundaries

#21

Front (Question)

elastic deformation

Back (Answer)

when material deforms as stress is applied but goes back to original state when stress is removed

#22

Front (Question)

plastic deformation

Back (Answer)

when material deforms as stress is applied and remains in new shape once stress is removed

#23

Front (Question)

the focus is….

Back (Answer)

point of origin of an earthquake

#24

Front (Question)

epicenter is…

Back (Answer)

the point on the surface directly above the focus