The Mercalli Scale Is a Scale From____________

question 48

Multiple Choice

The Mercalli Scale is a scale from____________ .

• A) I to XII that rates the structural damage due to an earthquake
• B) I to X that rates the total energy released during the main quake and all aftershocks
• C) 1 to 12 that rates the energy required for faulting to occur
• D) 1 to 10 that rates the energy released by an earthquake

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Content Morpheme

A morpheme that carries the main semantic and referential content of a sentence. In English content morphemes are usually nouns, verbs, adjectives, or adverbs.

Content Phoneme

The smallest unit of sound that can change the meaning of a word, emphasizing the informational component of speech sounds.

Verb Phrase

A grammatical structure consisting of a verb and its auxiliaries, expressing an action or a state of being.

Phoneme Sequences

The arrangement of the smallest distinct sound units in a language that can distinguish one word from another.