Earthquakes Table of Contents

1. The San Francisco Earthquake
   • Sliding Plates
   • The San Andreas Fault
2. What are Earthquakes?
   • Tectonic Plate Boundaries
   • Separate
   • Collide
   • Slide
3. Why and Where do Earthquakes Occur?
   • Loma Prieta, California Earthquake
4. Our Active Earth
   • The Richter Scale
   • Aftershock
   • Magnitude
5. Predicting Earthquakes
   • Seismologists
   • Can Animals Predict Earthquakes?
6. Bend Till it Breaks
   • Normal Fault
   • Reverse Fault
   • Strike-slip Fault
7. Earthquake Focus and Epicenter
   • epicenter
8. Earthquake Waves
9. How are Earthquakes Located and Measured?
   • Seismograph
   • Seismogram
10. Tsunamis
11. Vocabulary List
12. Vocabulary Test - Matching
13. Vocabulary Test - Fill in the blanks - using context
14. Chapter Assessment - T or F
15. Chapter Assessment - Multiple Choice

© Ellen Gabor, 2004

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