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Name at least one way that engineers make a building safer during an earthquake.
Putting the building on huge bearings or rollers to move with the earth's surface. Allowing the building the flex and sway.
True or False? Very stiff rigid buildings withstand earthquakes well?
False. A building that actually sways and flexes with the movement of the earth's surface is much safer.
True or False? Engineers can not build buildings to help withstand earthquakes?
False. Engineers can make many adjustments to building designs to make them safer.
True or False? The size of the earthquake is called the Magnitude?
True. There is one magnitude for each earthquake.
Is the change caused to the earth's surface during an earthquake a rapid change, or a slow change?
Rapid. It does not happen over decades or centuries. It happens in a matter of minutes.
What instrument is used to measure earthquakes?
Seismograph
What is the top-most layer of the earth called?
The crust
What causes the earth to shake during an earthquake?
When the plates rub together, it causes a ripple effect on the crust, or earth's surface.
What is the point on the earth's surface right above where the earthquake occurs?
Epicenter
What is the line along the 2 moving plates called?
Fault
What happens when 2 of the earth's plates slip past each other?
An earthquake
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