Basics of Earthquakes
Plate Tectonics
Seismic Waves
Anatomy of Earthquake
Miscellaneous
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Earthquakes are the most ________ natural disaster.
What is destructive?
100
The number of types of plate tectonics
What is 3
100
Two types of seismic waves
What are body and surface waves
100
Location within Earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs
What is the focus
100
Regions of numerous, closely spaced faults
What are fault zones
200
A break in a body of rock along which one black slides relative to another
What is fault
200
3 names of the tectonic plates
What is convergent, divergent, and continental
200
Two types of body waves
What is P and S waves
200
The point on Earth's surface directly above the focus
What is the epicenter
200
Sudden return of elastically deformed rock to its undeformed shape
What is elastic rebound
300
Causes the trembling and vibrations of an earthquake
What is slippage between 2 rocks grinding?
300
Plates that move towards each other and collide
What are convergent plates
300
Two type of surface waves
What are Raleigh and Love waves
300
Deep foci relate to which zone
What is subduction zone
300
When rocks spring back to their original shape
What is rebounding
400
Movements of the ground that are caused by a sudden release of energy when rocks along a fault move
What are Earthquakes
400
Plates that are moving away from each other
What are divergent plates?
400
Different movements in the Earth's crust are caused by
What are waves
400
The earthquakes that usually cause the most damage
What are shallow foci
400
Location on Earth's surface where no body waves from a particular earthquake can be detected
What is shadow zone
500
Earthquakes usually occur when rocks are under
What is stress
500
Plates that move horizontally in opposite directions
What are continental plates
500
Wave type travels through a medium
What are body waves What are P/S Waves
500
Shallow foci relate to which wave
What is the continental earthquakes
500
Main compositional layers of Earth
What are the crust, mantle, and core
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