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Physical Geography: The Global Environment, Second Edition - Unit 26

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the Submit my answers button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) epicentre
b) focus
c) fault
d) fracture
e) locus

Question 2:


a) epicentre
b) focus
c) fault
d) fracture
e) locus

Question 3:


a) magnitude
b) intensity
c) density factor
d) focal factor
e) force factor

Question 4:


a) magnitude
b) force factor
c) density factor
d) focal factor
e) intensity

Question 5:


a) cliff
b) caldera
c) fault scarp
d) seamount
e) phreatic depression

Question 6:


a) tidal wave
b) hurricane
c) typhoon
d) tsunami
e) monsoon

Question 7:


a) Saffir-Simpson Scale
b) Richter Scale
c) Modified Mercalli Scale
d) Moment Magnitude Scale
e) Mercalli Force Factor Scale

Question 8:


a) Saffir-Simpson Scale
b) Richter Scale
c) Modified Mercalli Scale
d) Moment Magnitude Scale
e) Mercalli Force Factor Scale

Question 9:


a) surface seismic waves
b) intensity
c) fault displacement
d) distance to the epicentre
e) distance to the focus

Question 10:


a) western South America
b) eastern South America
c) central Eurasia
d) central Australia
e) Antarctica

Question 11:


a) Circum-Pacific belt
b) Trans-Eurasian belt
c) Pacific Ring of fire
d) Mid-oceanic ridge
e) Taiwan seismic zone

Question 12:


a) Prairie provinces
b) Canadian shield
c) Southern Texas
d) Souther Florida
e) Lake Ontario

Question 13:


a) Prairie provinces
b) Canadian shield
c) Southern Texas
d) Souther Florida
e) Lake Ontario

Question 14:


a) scrap
b) breccia
c) plane
d) trace
e) tremor

Question 15:


a) Thailand
b) Sri Lanka
c) India
d) New England
e) Newfoundland

Question 16:


a) True
b) False

Question 17:


a) True
b) False

Question 18:


a) True
b) False

Question 19:


a) True
b) False

Question 20:


a) True
b) False

Question 21:


a) True
b) False