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Shake It Off
Collateral Damage
5 Hour Energy
100
The amount of space a rock takes up.
What is the rock's volume?
100
The location of most faults.
What are plate boundaries?
100
The area beneath the surface that is under stress and breaks, triggering an earthquake?
What is the focus?
100
An earthquake that occurs after a larger earthquake in the same area?
What is an aftershock?
100
Vibrations that travel through the Earth carrying energy released during an earthquake.
What are seismic waves?
200
A force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume.
What is stress?
200
A break in the rock of the crust.
What is a fault?
200
The point on the surface directly above the break in the rock.
What is the epicenter?
200
The best place in our building to go to during an earthquake.
What is the inner hallway?
200
This adds energy to rock, storing it until the rock changes shape or breaks.
What is stress.
300
The type of stress that can be described using scissors.
What is shearing?
300
The three types of faults.
What are normal, reverse, and strike-slip faults?
300
Seismic waves that compress and expand the ground.
What P waves?
300
The displacement of water by an earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
300
Releases the energy stored in rocks.
What is fault.
400
The type of stress associated with the divergent movement of plates.
What is tension?
400
The stress that forms normal faults.
What is tension?
400
The tool used to measure seismic waves.
What is a seismograph?
400
One of the top 5 states where earthquakes occur.
What is Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada, or Washington.
400
The movement of thermal energy from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration.
What is heat?
500
The type of stress associated with building mountains.
What is compression?
500
The stress that forms a fault with the hanging wall is above the footwall.
What is compression?
500
A rating system that estimates the total energy released by an earthquake.
What is the moment magnitude scale?
500
The process where loose soil is turned to mud because of violent, sudden movement.
What is liquefaction?
500
The type of evidence provided by seismic waves about Earth's interior.
What is indirect evidence?
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