The 25 March exam will consist of

• A section of multiple-choice questions that will assess your appreciation of certain facts and understanding of certain processes associated with earthquakes that were covered in the readings and/or the class lectures and activities.
• A section that assesses your data analysis skills. I will provide data and ask you to perform an analysis similar to some of those that you performed as part of the in-class activities.
• A section of questions that you will answer with a concise ‘essay’.

You should study the in-class activities to review how you performed the various data analyses. I will provide equations as needed with one exception, I expect that you know that

\[time = \frac{distance}{speed}~.\]

The following is the list of potential essay questions. These questions should be answered with five-to-ten good sentences. I encourage you to include a hand-drawn  cartoon or simple graphic, a timeline, etc. to help you explain a topic. You must support your answers with specific information from class notes or the readings. I will not ask all of these, but I may ask any of them.

• Explain the Elastic Rebound Model of earthquakes. Include the roles of plate motions, faults,  rock friction (static and dynamic), and fault rupture in the earthquake process.
• Describe the key earthquake patterns, including the spatial distribution of earthquakes, the frequency of earthquakes of different sizes, the temporal behavior of earthquakes in general and as part of an earthquake sequence.
• Describe modern (western) scientific investigation and the relationship between science and mathematics. Be sure to describe the roles of observation, patterns, and logically-based analysis and reasoning, and to discuss key characteristics of modern science that play an important role in its success as an effective approach to investigate natural phenomena.
• What should you do before, during, and after an earthquake (try here)?