vocabulary
These are caused by movement if Earth's Crust.
What are earthquakes?
This is a large destructive sea wave produced by undersea earthquake or volcano.
What is a Tsunami?
The detection of these is one-way seismologists predict the occurrence of earthquakes.
What are foreshocks?
This is the instrument used to measure the ground motion of earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
This type of wave is a compressional wave that stretches and compresses the interior of Earth during an earthquake.
What are P waves?
The monitoring of surface movements here are one way seismologists predict the occurrence of earthquakes.
What is along a fault line?
This is what happens when rocks along a fault line slip slowly past slowly past each other at a continuous, slow rate.
What is fault creep?
This property of seismic waves has led scientists to conclude that Earth's outer core is liquid.
What is S waves do not travel through the outer core.
The monitoring of this kind of gas levels is one way seismologists predict the occurrence of earthquakes.
What is radon gas?
These might cause a large earthquake in a subduction zone.
What is sudden jerks that occur as one tectonic plate sinks below another.
This is what can happen to soils saturated with water during an earth quake.
What is flow like a liquid?
The decrease of this is one way seismologists predict the occurrence of earthquakes.
What is electrical conductivity of rocks?
This property of Earth is generated by movement of liquid metals in Earth's outer core.
What is its magnetic field?