Earthquakes
Machine that measures an earthquake.
What is a seismometer.
The speed of water.
What is velocity.
All sediment of glacial origin.
What is drift.
The very active transform fault in California.
What is the San Andreas.
Place where a stream originates.
What are the headwaters.
These are the fastest seismic waves.
What are P waves.
Faction of sediment that moves along the bottom of the stream.
What is the bedload.
The area in front of a glacier.
What is the outwash plain or Sandur.
Is created by abrasion under waterfalls.
What are potholes.
What is a cirque.
These seismic waves cause the most damage.
What are surface waves.
Deposits on the inside of a meander.
What is a point bar.
Sediments deposited directly from melting ice.
Scale that measures an EQ from 1-10.
What is the Richter scale.
Point within the earth where an earthquake begins.
What is the focus.
Seismic waves that propagate perpendicular to wave direction.
What are S Waves.
Streams heavily laden with sediment.
What are braided streams.
Removal of blocks of rocks from the glacial bed by ice.
What is quarrying.
A glacial hitchhiker.
What is an erratic.
The point where a stream meets a standing body of water.
Scale that measures the intensity felt from an EQ.
What is the Mercalli Scale.
Areas that border a stream channel.
What are flood plains.
Egg-shaped deposits with a subglacial origin.
What are drumlins.
Feature formed when a meander bend gets cutoff.
What is an oxbow.
Marks the furthest extent of a glacier.
What is the terminal moraine.