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Tectonic Plates, Earthquake Worksheet

The document is a geography worksheet for 9th grade students on tectonic plates and earthquakes. It contains questions that assess students' understanding of tectonic plates, the location of different plates and their movement, as well as concepts relating to earthquakes such as the difference between the focus and epicenter, the types of seismic waves that spread from the focus, why earthquakes can affect places far from the focus, the Richter scale magnitudes at which humans can feel earthquakes and when they become a threat to human life.

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Tectonic Plates, Earthquake Worksheet

The document is a geography worksheet for 9th grade students on tectonic plates and earthquakes. It contains questions that assess students' understanding of tectonic plates, the location of different plates and their movement, as well as concepts relating to earthquakes such as the difference between the focus and epicenter, the types of seismic waves that spread from the focus, why earthquakes can affect places far from the focus, the Richter scale magnitudes at which humans can feel earthquakes and when they become a threat to human life.

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MERRYLAND INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY GRADE 9

WORKSHEET ON TECTONIC PLATES, EARTHQUAKE

I. Study the map showing Earth’s tectonic plates and answer the questions given below.

1. Identify and write the plate on which your native country is situated.

Ans: Arabian Plate

2. State the names of plates that form boundaries with the plate where your country is on.

Ans: African Plate and Eurasian Plate

3. In which hemisphere does this plate lie? (northern hemisphere / southern hemisphere)

Ans: Southern Hemisphere

4. Identify the direction this plate is moving in. (southward, northward, eastward, westward)

Ans: South East

5. What is the average movement of plates? Based on the average rate of movement of plates,
how far would a plate have moved in 10 million years? (answer in kilometres)
Ans:

II. Study the following figure and answer the questions that are given below.

1. What is the difference between the focus and the epicenter of an earthquake?

Ans: The point beneath the earth's surface/underground/b below the epicenter where
rock breaks/the plates shift and the earthquake originates but the epicenter is the
point on the earth's surface vertically above the hypocenter (or focus).

2. Name the waves that spread from the focus.

Ans:…………………………Seismic waves………………………………………………..

3. Why can earthquake affect places far away from the focus?

Ans: Earthquakes can happen along any type of plate boundary. Earthquakes occur
when tension is released from inside the crust. Plates do not always move smoothly
alongside each other and sometimes get stuck. When this happens, pressure builds
up. When this pressure is eventually released, an earthquake tends to occur.
4. Humans may be able to feel an earthquake when the magnitude is

Ans:……………………2-2.9…………………………………………………..

5. Find out how many times more powerful a 7 magnitude quake is compared to 3 magnitude
on the Richter scale.

Ans:…………On a 3 magnitude it is only like a passing truck’s vibration but on a 7


magnitude buildings are destroyed or crushed………………………………………

6. At what magnitude are earthquakes a threat to human lives?

Ans:………………………6-6.9…………………………………………………………..

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