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1. What methods are used to forecast an earthquake?

a. by animals behavior
b. by plants and trees
c. by babies behavior.
d. by computers and television.


2.Why does an earthquake occur?

a. because people make god angry
b. because season change
c. because two lithosphere plates hit each other
d. because of blasts on the sun


3.What is a focus of earthquake?

a. this is a place, in which a fault start
b. this is place of making new rocks
c. this is an upper level of the mantle
d. this is an area on earth surface, under which an earthquake focus is located.


4.What god in the Greek mythology was “the shaker” of the earth?

a. Zeus
b. Poseidon
c. Gefest
d. Apollo


5.What is a tsunami?

a. shaking of earth during an earthquake
a. the place where rocks move
a. the series of catastrophic ocean waves generated by submarine movements, which may be caused by earthquakes
a volcano eruption


6. Who invented moon hypothesis?

a. A. Vegener
b. A.L. Chizhevsky
c. Aristotle
d. S. Kilston, L. Knopoff


7. When did the earthquake in Altai occur?

a. 7 November 1999
b. 27 September 2003
c. 31 December 2000
d. 9 July 2001


8. What causes tsunami?

a. an earthquake in the sea
b. wind storm
c. strong stream
d. moon gravity


9. What hypothesis about the earthquake developed XVIII and XIX centuries?

a. moon hypothesis
b. Chizhevsky’s hypothesis
c. volcano eruption hypothesis.
d. Vegener’s hypothesis


10. What is a landslide?

a. Rapid slipping of a mass of earth or rock
b. Underground shocks and earth surface shaking
c. The point where the fault starts
d. the upper level of the mantle




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