Waves
Waves that carry energy through Earth’s rock.
What are seismic waves?
The point where the first movement of rock occurs and energy is released.
What is the focus?
Plate boundaries where the plates are moving away from each other.
What is divergent?
The scale that is used to measure the amplitude of the seismic wave.
What is the Moment Magnitude scale?
The fault that is the most threatening fault in California.
What is the San Andreas fault?
The fastest wave of an earthquake.
What is the P-wave?
The point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus.
What is the epicenter?
Plate boundaries where the plates are colliding with each other.
What is convergent?
The elastic strain energy becomes this kind of energy when released in an earthquake.
What is kinetic energy?
They cause rolling and side-to-side motion.
What is surface waves?
The slowest wave of an earthquake.
What is the surface wave?
It is responsible for all earthquakes.
What is tectonic plate motion?
Plate boundaries where the plates are grinding past each other.
What is transform ?
The method that is used to find the exact location of the epicenter.
What is the triangulation method?
Just before a tsunami reaches shore, the water near the shoreline may do this.
What is move out toward the sea?
It moves rock perpendicular to the direction that the wave is traveling.
What is the S-wave?
It is caused by an earthquake on the ocean floor.
What is a tsunami?
This happens to seismic waves when they hit boundaries of differing rock density.
What is bend?
The type of plate boundary that is associated with the most devastating earthquakes in all of history.
What is convergent ?
It travels through both solid and liquid rock.
What is a P-wave?
It is a compressional waves moving in the same direction as the wave is traveling.
What is the P-wave?
Earthquakes usually occur at these places but not always.
What are plate boundaries?
The kind of rock that S-waves will not travel through.
What is liquid?
The term for the stored energy that builds up and is finally released as an earthquake.
What is elastic strain energy?
The type of wave that causes the most damage.
What is the surface wave?