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LAYERS
FAULTS
BOUNDARY, ZONE, COLLISIONS
SESIMIC
ROCKS GET STREESED
100
What is the outermost rigid layer?
What is Lithosphere
100
What is the two sides of a fault?
What is hanging wall and footwall.
100
The boundary where the plates meet?
What is convergent boundary.
100
What are seismic waves?
They are waves of energy that travel through the Earth.
100
What is the amount of force per unit on a given material?
What is stress.
200
The lower part of the mantle?
What is Mesosphere
200
Causes the hanging wall to move down relative to the footwall?
What is a normal fault.
200
The boundary where the tectonic plates move away from one another?
What is a divergent boundary.
200
What records seismic waves?
What is a seismograph.
200
What is the bending of rock layers?
What is folding.
300
Soft layer of the mantle broken up in to pieces called tectonic plates?
What is asthenosphere.
300
The surface along which rocks break and slide past each other?
What is a fault.
300
Give an example of a transform boundary?
What is the San Andreas Fault, in California.
300
What is the tracing of earthquake motion created by qa seismograph.
What is a seismogram.
300
What is tension?
What is when the rock layers get stretched.
400
The core is made into two parts name them in order?
What is Outer core then inner core.
400
causes the hanging wall to move up relative to the footwall?
What is reverse fault.
400
What is the region where oceanic plates sink into the asthenosphere?
What is a subduction zone.
400
What is the area along a fault where earthquakes rarely happen?
What is seismic gap.
400
What is compression?
What is when rock layers are squeezed.
500
What is the acronym for the layers of the Earth that we learned?
What is lamoi.
500
opposing forces cause the rock to break ad move horizontally?
What is a strike-slip fault.
500
Name the types of collisions?
What is Continental/Continental, Continental/Oceanic, Oceanic/ Oceanic.
500
Name the two types of seismic waves.
What is P waves and S waves.
500
What are the names of the two most common folds?
What is anticlines and synclines.