16.3B| Reading & Reading Review Questions: Earthquakes
- Due May 1, 2024 at 11:59pm
- Points 19
- Questions 19
- Available Jan 8, 2024 at 12am - May 6, 2024 at 11:59pm
- Time Limit None
- Allowed Attempts 3
Instructions
Instructions
Read An Introduction to Geology, Chapter 9, sections 9.6 through 9.9, but skip subsections 9.6.4 Induced Seismicity and 9.7.3 Seismic Tomography. Check your understanding as you go by completing the "Did I Get It?" quizzes. Use the learning objectives to help guide your note-taking.
This reading assignment will provide the information needed to answer the questions in this assignment successfully and will help you meet the learning objectives of other exercises and the module quiz.
Read each question carefully and choose the best answer. You have three attempts and no time limit.
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Time Needed
1-1.5 hours.
Learning Objectives
- Students can relate tectonic stresses to plate boundaries, geologic structures, crustal deformation, and the building of mountains
- Explain how elastic rebound generates earthquakes
- Discuss the relationship between earthquakes and plate boundaries
- Analyze seismogram records to locate earthquake epicenters and calculate the earthquake magnitudes
- Describe the factors that determine earthquake destruction
- Describe a historically impactful earthquake