EAPS 106 - EXAM 1 REVIEW
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is warm, weak layer of mantle beneath the rigid plates called. - Correct Answers -
Asthenosphere
What are the locations where oceanic plates dive back into the Earth's interior called? -
Correct Answers -Subduction zones
What is elastic rebound? - Correct Answers -. The process by which crust can bend and
unbend like rubber
Watch the Unit 1 Part 2 lecture video and answer the following question: What is stick-
slip behavior? - Correct Answers -The process that causes a fault to be stuck between
earthquakes and slip during them
What kinds of settings do thrust faults occur in? - Correct Answers -Compressional
What kinds of settings do normal faults occur in? - Correct Answers -Extensional
Which type of body wave cannot pass through liquids? - Correct Answers -S waves
Why is it safe to return to the beach after a tsunami wave first arrives and has already
caused damage? - Correct Answers -It is not safe to return to the beach because
tsunamis consists of several waves
How does the DART system detect tsunamis? - Correct Answers -An instrument detects
water pressure change on the seafloor.
What was special about the Lituya Bay tsunami? - Correct Answers -It created the
highest runup of any recorded tsunami
Which type of seismic waves cause the most shaking? - Correct Answers -Surface
waves
What does the fact that S waves do not travel through the Earth's outer core tell us? -
Correct Answers -That the outer core is liquid
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is warm, weak layer of mantle beneath the rigid plates called. - Correct Answers -
Asthenosphere
What are the locations where oceanic plates dive back into the Earth's interior called? -
Correct Answers -Subduction zones
What is elastic rebound? - Correct Answers -. The process by which crust can bend and
unbend like rubber
Watch the Unit 1 Part 2 lecture video and answer the following question: What is stick-
slip behavior? - Correct Answers -The process that causes a fault to be stuck between
earthquakes and slip during them
What kinds of settings do thrust faults occur in? - Correct Answers -Compressional
What kinds of settings do normal faults occur in? - Correct Answers -Extensional
Which type of body wave cannot pass through liquids? - Correct Answers -S waves
Why is it safe to return to the beach after a tsunami wave first arrives and has already
caused damage? - Correct Answers -It is not safe to return to the beach because
tsunamis consists of several waves
How does the DART system detect tsunamis? - Correct Answers -An instrument detects
water pressure change on the seafloor.
What was special about the Lituya Bay tsunami? - Correct Answers -It created the
highest runup of any recorded tsunami
Which type of seismic waves cause the most shaking? - Correct Answers -Surface
waves
What does the fact that S waves do not travel through the Earth's outer core tell us? -
Correct Answers -That the outer core is liquid
