Types of Waves
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Measurements
Types of Faults
Volcanoes
100
What is the nickname for Primary waves?
What is p-waves
100
What is the location inside earth where rocks move along a fault?
What is the focus
100
What is the term used for people who study Earthquakes
What is a Seismologist
100
what type of fault can form along a transform plate boundary
What is strike-slip
100
What is the type of volcano that forms along a divergent plate boundary
What is a shield volcano
200
What type of wave moves up and down at right angles?
What is Secondary waves
200
define epicenter
What is The location on earths surface directly above an earth focus
200
the tool used to measure ground Motion
What is a Seismometer
200
What type of fault pulls two blocks of rock apart
what is Normal Fault
200
What is the type of volcano that erupts with anesthetic and rhyolitic lava and ash
What is a composite volcano
300
What type of wave causes particles in the ground to move up and down in a rolling motion?
What is surface waves
300
T/F a seismogram is a graphical illustraton of seismic energy
What is False
300
The Instrument used to Illustrate Seismic waves
What is a Seismogram
300
Reversed or normal Faults can push two blocks of rock together
What is a Reverse Fault
300
What is the type of volcano that has steep sides and erupts basaltic lava
What is a cinder volcano
400
This type of wave originates where rocks first moves along a fault
What is seismic waves
400
an earthquake is the vibrations in the ground that results from the movement along breaks in earths lithosphere or asthenosphere?
What is lithosphere
400
The term that records the distance seismic waves travel
What is a Seismometer
400
What type of fault is found at a divergent plate boundry
What is Normal Fault
400
What type of volcano was Mt. St. Helens
What is a composite volcano
500
What type of wave cannot travel through a liquid?
What is secondary waves
500
Where do earthquakes occur?
What is the focus
500
what tool is used to find the epicenter
What is a seismogram
500
Which type of fault moves horizotally
What is Strike-slip
500
What is tiny particles of pulverized volcanic rock and glass called
What is volcanic ash
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