Seismology
Parts of an Earthquake
Earthquake Waves
Types of Boundaries
Misc.
100
What is the science in which earthquakes are studied?
Seismology
100
What is the point inside Earth where an earthquake begins?
focus
100
What are the waves that travel through the inside of the Earth?
Body Waves
100


Oceanic vs Continental Convergent boundary

100

What was the land mass called when all of the continents were together?

Pangea

200
What do seismologists use to determine when an earthquake started?
Seismogram
200
What is the point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquakes starting point?
Epicenter
200
What are the fastest seismic waves that can travel through solids, liquids, and gases called?
P Waves
200


continental vs continental convergent boundary

200

What is it called when a plate is drawn to the center of the earth & melted

Subduction

300
What do seismologists use to measure earthquake strength?
Richter Magnitude Scale
300
What is the name for a break in Earth's crust where tectonic plates slide?
Fault
300
What waves stretch rock sideways and cannot travel through liquids?
S Waves
300


oceanic oceanic divergent boundary

300

How fast are the plates moving? (as fast as....  not a number)

As fast as your fingernails grow

400
What is the measurement of the strength of an earthquake called?
Magnitude
400
What are the giant pieces of Earth's outer layer where most earthquakes occur called?
tectonic plates
400

What type of SURFACE wave moves in a rolling/ wave-like fashion?

Rayleigh Waves

400

This is not a plate boundary. But what is it?


A Hot Spot

400

Mt. St. Helens and other volcanoes along the West coast are created due to this type of plate boundary. 

Oceanic vs. Continental Convergent plate boundary (subduction zone = melted crust = magma rises = volcano)
500

How is magnitude measured via the Richter Scale?

Logarithmically 

500

What are the two types of waves of energy that travel THROUGH EARTH'S BODY called?

P and S waves
500

What body wave moves through compression?

P waves

500


Transform boundary

500

This is the type of stress put on a plate at a divergent boundary. 

Tension

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