5.) if you were to buy a house where would you prefer to build it?
a. a brick building in an area underlain artificial till
b. a brick building in an area beneath granite
c. africa structure in an area underlain by sand and silt sediments
d. all the choices above are equally good locations.
6.) many divergent plate boundaries coincide with____.
a. edges of the continents
b. mid-ocean ridge
c. transform faults
d. volcano
7.) during large earthquakes which is responsible for the greatest number of fatalities?
a. fires
b. large objects (buildings) fall on people
c. people buried alive
d. sanitary fails
8.) earth's external heat engine is driven by what source of energy?
a. coal
b. natural gas
c. petroleum
d. sun
9.) massive soil erosion from a hill or mountain is called_____.
a. landslide
b. liquefaction
c. subsidence
d. tsunami
10.) which can help reduce the risk of an earthquake?
a. effective earthquake instrumentation
b. building resistant structures
c. hazard maps
d. all of the above
11.)the latest super is that portion of the earthquake were rocks behave as________.
a. brittle solids
b. fluid
c. plastic solids
d. soft rocks
12.) at transform plate boundaries_________.
a. two plates slip past horizontally each other
b. two plates move in opposite directions away from each other
c. two plates move in opposite directions to each other
d. two plates are sub-ducted beneath each other.
13.)liquefaction is caused by______.
a. movement of tectonic plates
b. motion along earth's faults
c. shifting of bedrocks
d. decreasing density or compactness of soil
14.)choosing the right materials and design in building your house is an example of______.
a. earthquake instrumentation
b. hazard mapping
c. structural engineering
d. none of the above
15.)which of the following is not a secondary hazard caused by an earthquake?
a. landslide
b. liquefaction
c. loss of lives
d. tsunami
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