IMPORTANT
WORDS IN BOLD
WORDS IN BOLD
Known as a harbor wave in Japan, these catastrophic events often follow, "RUN!!!!!!"
What is a tsunami?
Ahoy matey! The upward force that a fluid exerts on an object in the fluid
What is buoyant force?
The name of the major fault line that sits off the coast line of the Beaver state
What is the Cascadia Subduction Zone?
An instrument that detects the movement of the earth due to seismic waves
What is a seismometer?
AGHHHHH! A measurable movement of the earth's crust is happening!
What is an earthquake?
Section of rock on opposite sides of the crack move relative to each other. Don't blame me!
What is a fault?
A contact force that acts to squeeze or crush an object or substance
What is compression?
Also found in closely contested basketball game, the measure of how much damage actually results from the earthquake
What is intensity?
The margin between two tectonic plates that are moving away towards each other
What is a convergent boundary?
Insert scared face emoji... a possibility of injury or death to people and damage to property
What is a risk?
The energy released by the movement of earth or an expression of size
What is magnitude?
Forces that act to pull an object apart. Here, hold onto this rope and PULL.
What is tension?
The center of the earthquake, located on the earth's surface, is where you might get all shook up
What is the epicenter?
The margin between two tectonic plates that are moving past each other in opposite directions
What is a transform boundary?
Most earthquake waves pass right through the earth. Which one arrives to the seismic station first?
What are P waves?
A crack in a rock that shows no indication of motion on either side
What is a joint?
The margin between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
What is a divergent boundary?
Triangulation, the process of finding an earthquake's epicenter, requires how many seismic stations
What is three?
Defined in 1935, a scale that rates the magnitude of intensity of an earthquake
What is the Richter Scale?
Rayleigh and Love waves are the two types of this wave that is found near the ground
What is a surface wave?
Often the cause of death in earthquakes, architects are currently working to make progress to deter damage
What is building collapse?
Little Bo Peep may give these haircuts, but it also can be forces acting in opposite directions on different parts of the same object or substance
What is shear?
Time to pay attention! The center of an earthquake’s activity which can be found deep underground
What is the focus?
The distortion, bending, stretching, or compression of a material, like my hamstring, under stress
What is a strain?
Seismologists can find the distance from a seismic station to the epicenter of an earthquake by finding the time between the arrival of the P and this type of wave
What is the S wave?