Vocabulary
Seismology
Earthquake Scales
Waves
Boundaries
100
What is..The sudden release of energy along a fault that causes the ground to start shaking.
an earthquake
100
What are the the waves shown on a seismograph?
P-Waves, S-Waves, and Surface Waves
100
What scale measures the ground motion from an earthquake to determine magnitude
Richter Scale
100
What wave causes rock to compress (push/pull)?
P-Waves
100
What is spot in the middle of a plate called where shield volcanoes form like Hawaii?
Hot Spot
200
What is the amount of energy released by an earthquake, measured by the Richter scale
magnitude
200
What is the machine that records earthquake shaking
seismograph
200
What scale has a I-VII numbering system?
Mercalli scale
200
What wave causes rock to move up and down (perpendicular) to the direction of the wave
S-Waves
200
What boundary do plates move away form each other to form rifts and mid-ocean ridges
Divergent Boundary
300
What is a giant ocean wave that forms after a volcanic eruption, submarine earthquake, or landslide
tsunami
300
What is the paper tracing of the earthquake that is recorded by a seismograph
seismogram
300
What scale measures the intensity, or amount of damage caused by an earthquake
Mercalli Scale
300
What waves cause the most damage?
surface waves
300
What boundary do plates move towards each other and collide to form trenches, mountains, volcanoes, and island arcs
Convergent Boundary
400
What is the location along a fault at which the first motion of the earthquake occurs below the surface?
Focus
400
What is the location of an earthquake on the the surface?
epicenter
400
What scale is measured from 1 to 10?
Richter scale
400
What waves are the slowest?
surface waves
400
What boundary do plates slide past each other while moving in opposite directions and has no volcanoes?
Transform Boundary
500
What is the sudden return of elastically stretched rock to its undeformed shape
Elastic Rebound
500
What is the study of earthquakes and seismic waves
seismology
500
What is another way of saying "earthquake"?
seismic event
500
What wave cannot pass through liquid like the melted rock inside the Earth?
S-waves
500
What boundary causes composite volcanoes?
Convergent Boundary
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