Earth's crust
This is the idea that the earth's crust is made up of moving plates.
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
These are the three types of seismic waves.
What are s-waves, p-waves and surface waves?
A seismograph does this.
What is records seismic waves?
The higher the magnitude of an earthquake, the higher the _______________ caused.
What is damage?
These are giant ocean waves that are triggered by earthquakes, volcanoes, or landslides.
What is a tsunami?
This is where most earthquakes have occurred in the last 50 years.
What is the Ring of Fire?
This is the strength of the seismic waves of an earthquake.
What is the magnitude?
This occurs as rocks move apart and a section may fall between the separating rocks.
What is a normal fault?
This is the area underground where the seismic waves of an earthquake originate.
What is the focus?
This is a break in the earth's surface along which rocks can move.
What is a fault?
This occurs when rocks shift while releasing stored up energy.
What is an earthquake?
These types of waves cause the most destruction.
What are surface waves?
This fault occurs when rocks move horizontally along other rocks?
What is a strike -slip-fault?
This occurs when rocks push together until they force a section of rock upward.
What is a Thrust or Reverse Fault?
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5 is how many times greater than one of 1?
What is 10,000?
This is the point directly above the focus?
What is the epicenter?
These seismic waves occur beneath the surface of the earth.
What are body waves?
These are the two type of land waves.
What are love waves and rayleigh waves?
This is the biblical view on how our continents were formed.
What is the Noadic flood?
This is a feature that helps a building withstand an earthquake.
What is reinforced concrete, steel framing or a foundation that is set in rock?
This measures the magnitude of an earthquake whereas the other measures the destruction caused by an earthquake.(Need both answers for full credit and in correct order)
What is the Richter Scale and the Mercalli Scale?
These are the vibrations that flow from the start of an earthquake.
What are seismic waves?
This how you spell the belief that at one time all the land masses in the world were once connected.
What is P-A-N-G-A-E-A?
These three states of the US have the highest earthquake risk.
What are California, Alaska and Hawaii?
These are the four main parts of the Earth.
What are the inner core, the outer core, the mantle, and the crust?