Question 1
2 out of 2 points
Which of the following wave types travels slowest through rock?
Correct
Answer: Surface waves
Question 2
2 out of 2 points
Transform faults usually link spreading centers or connect
spreading centers with subduction zones.
Correct Tr
Answer: ue
Question 3
2 out of 2 points
In 55 years, from 1962-2017, the more than 156,000 in Iran
earthquakes mostly from a result of __________.
Correct
Answer: poor
construction
Question 4
2 out of 2 points
In the law of __________, Steno stated that in an undeformed sequence of
sedimentary rock layers, each sedimentary rock layer is younger than the
bed beneath it, but older than the bed above it.
Correct
Answer: superposition
Question 5
2 out of 2 points
The law of __________ explains that sediments (such as sand, gravel, and
mud) are originally deposited or settled out of water in horizontal layers.
Correct
Answer: original horizontality
Question 6
2 out of 2 points
The oldest rocks on the ocean floors are about __________ years in age.
Correct
Answer: 200
million
Question 7
2 out of 2 points
The leading theory on the origin of the moon leads to the idea
that the moon is composed of mantle.
Correct Tr
Answer: ue
Question 8
2 out of 2 points
The growth rate of the world population equals __________.
Correct
Answer: the birthrate minus the death rate
Question 9
2 out of 2 points
As radioactive atoms decay, heat energy is _________.
Correct
Answer: releas
ed
Question 10
2 out of 2 points
The rates of plate movement are comparable to those of human
fingernail growth.
Correct Tr
Answer: ue
Question 11
2 out of 2 points
Earth is about __________ years old.
Correct
Answer: 4.5 billion
Question 12
2 out of 2 points
After lava cools below the __________ point atoms in iron-bearing minerals
become magnetized in the direction of Earth's magnetic field at that time
and place.
Correct
Answer: Curi
e
Question 13
2 out of 2 points
The heat that transformed Earth early in its history came primarily from all
but which of the following?
Correct
Answer: dark energy
Question 14
2 out of 2 points
Three basic classes of collisions include all but which of the
following?
Correct
Answer: Continental plate versus mantle plate
Question 15
2 out of 2 points
Which statement accurately describes the planets of our solar system?
Correct
Answer: The four inner planets are smaller and rocky and the four outer
planets are giant icy bodies composed mostly of hydrogen and
helium.
Question 16
2 out of 2 points
Which of the following correctly states the order in which a continental area
is transformed into an ocean basin as a spreading center forms?
Correct
Answer: Centering, doming, rifting, and finally spreading
Question 17
2 out of 2 points
The ________ waves advance in a backward-rotating, elliptical
motion.
Correct
Answer: Raylei
gh
Question 18
2 out of 2 points
Most earthquakes are explainable using __________.
Correct
Answer: plate-tectonics theory
Question 19
2 out of 2 points
The biggest shaking event is called "the earthquake," the smaller ones
before it are known as foreshocks, and the smaller ones after it are called
aftershocks.
Correct Tr
Answer: ue
Question 20
2 out of 2 points
Which of the following is not a way to improve a building’s resistance to
earthquakes?
Correct
Answer: Match its period to seismic waves at that location.
Question 21
2 out of 2 points
The Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee __________________.
Correct
Answer: are pull-apart basins and the result of
strike-slip motion
Question 22
2 out of 2 points
The Richter scale is set up so that for every _______ increase in the
amplitude of the recorded seismic wave, the Richter magnitude increases
one number, e.g., from 4 to 5.
Correct
Answer: ten-
fold
Question 23
0 out of 2 points
P waves can travel through ________________.
Correct
Answer: gases, liquids, and
solids
Question 24
2 out of 2 points
Gravitational pull on a dense, down-going plate at a subduction
zone (slab pull) is one of the forces that keeps the lithospheric
plates moving.
Correct Tr
Answer: ue
Question 25
2 out of 2 points
Today, North America has several small- to medium-sized plates
subducting beneath its ____________.
Correct
Answer: western
margin
Question 26
2 out of 2 points
The seismic-gap method of earthquake forecasting works by identifying
__________.
Correct
Answer: segments along a fault that not moved for the longest
amount of time
Question 27
2 out of 2 points
Shallow subduction zone earthquakes occur __________________.
Correct
Answer: All of these are
correct.
Question 28
2 out of 2 points
Using the seismic gap method, scientists identify section “C” of a fault as a
seismic gap. Which of the following possible answers correctly states what
this means?
Correct
Answer: The next major earthquake will likely occur in section “C”
but it is not a guarantee.
Question 29
2 out of 2 points
The _____ wave travels fastest and moves in a push-pull fashion of
alternating pulses of compression (push) and extension (pull).
Correct
Answer: P
Question 30
2 out of 2 points
Which of the following is not a divergent margin?
Correct
Answer: Aleutian Island
Arc
Question 31
2 out of 2 points
When oceanic lithosphere collides with another plate, the ________
in the process of subduction.
Correct
Answer: older, colder plate turns downward beneath the younger,
warmer plate
Question 32
2 out of 2 points
The __________ segment of the San Andreas fault is the only one not to
have a long rupture in historic time. In prehistory, it has ruptured every 250
years on average, but the last big movement was in 1690.
Correct
Answer: southern
Question 33
2 out of 2 points
The sizes of the felt areas of large earthquakes in North America are always
the best indicator of earthquake magnitude.
Correct Fa
Answer: lse
Question 34
2 out of 2 points
The primary cause of deaths in earthquakes in modern times is people being
swallowed alive by the ground, rather than by building collapse.
Correct Fa
Answer: lse
Question 35
0 out of 2 points
Which of the following concepts best explains why a mass of low-density
material in the mantle rises?
Correct
Answer: Buoyancy
Question 36
2 out of 2 points
If a particular disaster has a high frequency of occurrence, it also has a large
return period (recurrence interval).
Correct Fa
Answer: lse
Question 37
2 out of 2 points
A normal fault occurs when the hanging wall moves ________
relative to the footwall.
Correct
Answer: down
Question 38
2 out of 2 points
Earthquakes are most commonly caused by ______________.
Correct
Answer: sudden earth movements along
faults
Question 39
2 out of 2 points
A rock with only 25% of the parent isotope left has been decaying for time
equal to __________ half-lives.
Correct
Answer: two
Question 40
2 out of 2 points
The rapid increase in human population during the past several centuries is
an example of __________ growth.
Correct
Answer: exponenti
al
Question 41
2 out of 2 points
The reduction of ______ waves at the core-mantle boundary
indicates that the outer core is mostly liquid.
Correct
Answer: S
Question 42
2 out of 2 points
The frequency of a wave is __________________.
Correct
Answer: the number of waves passing a given point
per unit time
Question 43
2 out of 2 points
The greatest earthquakes in the world occur _____________.
Correct
Answer: where plates collide with
each other
Question 44
2 out of 2 points
The Great Basin region between the eastern Sierra Nevada in California and
the Wasatch Mountains in Utah ______________________ in response to
plate-tectonic forces.
Correct
Answer: has expanded in an east-west
direction
Question 45
2 out of 2 points
With compressional forces, the hanging wall moves upward relative
to the footwall; this type of fault is referred to as a __________
fault.
Correct
Answer: rever
se
Question 46
2 out of 2 points
The spreading-center segment at the southern end of California's Salton Sea
is marked by all but which of the following?
Correct
Answer: a lack of small earthquakes because magma is too close to
Earth's surface
Question 47
2 out of 2 points
Transform faults have mostly vertical displacement rather than
horizontal displacement.
Correct Fa
Answer: lse
Question 48
2 out of 2 points
Eastern U.S. damages may be experienced over a smaller area than
they would be for an equivalent-sized earthquake in California.
Correct Fa
Answer: lse
Question 49
2 out of 2 points
The intensity of an earthquake is influenced by all but which of the
following?
Correct
Answer: The current air pressure
Question 50
2 out of 2 points
Most of the 40 deadliest disasters between 1970 and 2013 occurred in a belt
running from China and Bangladesh through India and Iran to Turkey. This
area was particularly vulnerable because __________.
Correct
Answer: it has a high population
density
