ISP 203B-Exam 2 Questions and Answers

ISP 203B-Exam 2 Questions and Answers Affects of earthquakes and Landslides - ANS ️️ Effect of water on ground stability Landslides, Glaciers and Volcanic products - ANS ️️ Dense material flows downslope Hot material (air, volcanoes and magma) - ANS ️️ Rises Cold material - ANS ️️ Sinks Earthquakes and volcanoes - ANS ️️ Rocks crack under stress Love waves - ANS ️️ -Structures are weaker to horizontal shaking -Needs reinforcement -Surface seismic waves that cause horizontal shifting of the earth during an earthquake Why is ground motion amplified by soft sediments when energy travels farther in more solid crust? - ANS ️️ -Energy travels farther and is less damped out in a more solid crust (upper lithosphere) -Energy in the mid-continent travels farther than in the west because in the west the crust is broken up and the lithosphere is hot Earthquakes - ANS ️️ -Small earthquakes are more likely than large -really large earthquakes are scarce