The Waves
Earth
Shadow Zones
Plate Tectonics
Miscellaneous
100
P waves
What is the wave that is the fastest and always the first waves of an earthquake to be detected?
100
S waves
What is the type of wave that does not reach the shadow zone?
100
where stress on the rock is greatest
Where are these settings most likely located?
100
No
Do all earthquakes occur as a result from movement along plate boundaries?
200
P waves and S waves
What are the two categories that body waves can be placed into?
200
tectonic plates
What do scientists call puzzles?
200
P waves and S waves
What are the two types of waves that have to do with shadow zones?
200
divergent oceanic environments
What plates are moving away from each other?
200
Andrija Mohorovicic
What is the name of the scientist that discovered that the speed of waves increases largely beneath the surface of continents?
300
body waves
What is the type of waves that travel through the body medium?
300
Highly, they bend.
What is the possibility that waves "bend"?
300
convergent oceanic environments
What environment makes the plates move toward each other and collide?
300
shaped like an S
What is the shape that S waves are?
400
side-to-side and perpendicular to the way the waves are traveling.
What is the direction love waves cause rock to move?
400
inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust
What are the four major layers of Earth?
400
locations on the Earth's surface where no body waves can be detected.
What are shadow zones?
400
convergent, divergent, and continental environments.
What are the three environments in which earthquakes occur?
400
regions of numerous, closely spaced faults
What are fault zones?
500
Love waves and Rayleigh waves.
What are the two types of surface waves?
500
between the crust and the mantle
What is the place where increase of speed takes place?
500
Because Earth's interior are not uniform in rigidity.
Why do shadow zones exist?
500
continental environments
What environment creates such stress that may cause mountains to form?
500
New Madrid, Missouri
What city did the most felt series of earthquakes occur?
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