This is how it is built!

Question 1

The shaking of the ground caused by the tremendous release of energy due to pressure in Earth’s crust.

Answer 1

Earthquake

Question 2

It causes the most inducing stress activity for earthquakes to occur.

Answer 2

Tectonic plate movement

Question 3

Earthquakes release energy through ____________________.

Answer 3

seismic waves

Question 4

Other name of primary waves (besides P-waves)

Answer 4

compressional waves

Question 5

The motion of P-wave is ________________.

Answer 5

longitudinal

Question 6

Other name of secondary waves (besides S-waves)

Answer 6

transverse waves

Question 7

The instrument that detects and measure seismic waves.

Answer 7

Seismograph

Question 8

Internal part of the seismograph.

Answer 8

Seismometer

Question 9

It works as a pendulum that swings back and forth which is attached to a barrel that rotates and makes prints of the ground shaking.

Answer 9

Seismometer

Question 10

The quantitative measure of the amount of energy released by an earthquake.

Answer 10

Magnitude of an earthquake

Question 11

The most common scale for the magnitude of an earthquake.

Answer 11

Richter scale

Question 12

Richter scale is sometimes called the?

Answer 12

local magnitude

Question 13

It refers to the strength of ground shaking during an earthquake.

Answer 13

Intensity

Question 14

The first scale used in identifying earthquake intensity.

Answer 14

Rossi-Forel intensity scale

Question 15

Widely used intensity scale.

Answer 15

Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale

Question 16

The process wherein magma escapes from Earth’s interior to form cool and hard rocks.

Answer 16

Volcanism

Question 17

The most destructive earthquake that hit the Philippines happened at the ______________ in _______ with a magnitude of _______ and is _________ in origin.

Answer 17

Moro Golf,1976, 8.0, tectonic

Question 18

A landform with an opening at its tip.

Answer 18

Volcano

Question 19

An opening that allows molten magma to flow outside the surface.

Answer 19

Crater

Question 20

When lava flows on the surface, it is called ________________.

Answer 20

extrusive volcanism

Question 21

When lava cools down and becomes a rock, it is called ____________________.

Answer 21

Igneous rock

Question 22

There are some instances where lava does not escape from the crate and flows along the chamber inside the crust and harden, it is then called?

Answer 22

Intrusive volcanism

Question 23

In a volcanic eruption, the flow of magma or lava is affected by _________________ and __________________.

Answer 23

temperature, composition

Question 24

The magma’s ability to flow.

Answer 24

Viscosity

Question 25

Volcanoes that arise from the excretion of magma to the mantle.

Answer 25

Hotspots

Question 26

2 types of lava flow

Answer 26

- aa (ah-ah) - pahoehoe (pah-hoy-hoy)

Question 27

The process of mountain building.

Answer 27

orogeny

Question 28

A large surface feature that rises above its relative.

Answer 28

Mountain

Question 29

Series of mountain chains

Answer 29

mountain ranges

Question 30

3 types of mountain building

Answer 30

- Andean -type - island arc - continental volcanic arc

Question 31

A mountain building whose major features are deep-ocean trenches and volcanic arcs.

Answer 31

Island arc

Question 32

It is caused by the compression of the crust above the other in the collision process.

Answer 32

Continental volcanic arc

Question 33

It occurs when two oceanic plates converge, and as the leading plate subducts from the other, the plate piles up, forming volcanic island arcs that consist of igneous and metamorphic rocks.

Answer 33

Island arc

Question 34

This type of mountain building occurs along continental plate boundaries.

Answer 34

Andean-type

Question 35

The most visible effect of orogenesis.

Answer 35

The faulting and folding of the lithospheric plate

Question 36

It happens when a force compresses the crust, causing the crust to bend from its sides.

Answer 36

Folding

Question 37

The peak of any folded rock layer.

Answer 37

Anticline

Question 38

The lowest point of the fold.

Answer 38

Syncline

Question 39

It is characterized by a sharp-peaked anticline fold.

Answer 39

tight fold

Question 40

The bending or warping of folding rock layers.

Answer 40

Overfold

Question 41

A type of fold that is a result of too much bending that no vertical regions can be seen.

Answer 41

Recumbent fold

Question 42

A fold that has overturned, causing rock layers to be fractured.

Answer 42

Nappe

Question 43

It is defined as the slope or inclination of any geological surface.

Answer 43

Dip

Question 44

Any horizontal line that is drawn on the sloping surface.

Answer 44

Strike

Question 45

Other scales that express the magnitude of earthquakes.

Answer 45

- surface-wave magnitude - body-wave magnitude - moment magnitude

Question 46

The inactive volcano is the one...

Answer 46

farther away from the current active volcano.

Question 47

The most active volcano is the one...

Answer 47

directly above the mantle plume where the magma is rising.

Question 48

It can be considered an agent of change.

Answer 48

Volcanic eruptions

Question 49

The rock that falls under the fault.

Answer 49

foot wall

Question 49

It is characterized by the movement of the hanging wall.

Answer 49

Dip-slip fault

Question 50

Any rock that falls above the fault line.

Answer 50

Hanging wall

Question 51

A dip-slip fault whose hanging wall falls down the surface of the fault.

Answer 51

Normal fault