All about Quakes
What is an earthquake?
Force that acts on rocks to change its shape or volume
What is stress?
Folds in rock are caused by this type of stress.
What is compression?
The fastest type of seismic waves.
What are P-waves?
Tension is the stress found at this boundary.
The movement of these causes earthquakes
What are tectonic plates?
Stress that thins rocks
A fold in rock that bends upward into an arch
What is an anticline?
Seismic waves that move from side to side or up and down.
What are S-Waves?
Compression is the stress that happens here
What is convergent boundary?
Crack in the ground where quakes occur
What is a fault?
Type of stress that creates folds in rock
What is compression?
A fold in rock that bends downward to form a V shape
What is a syncline?
What are surface waves?
What kind of stress happens at transform boundaries?
Instrument used to measure earthquakes
What is a seismograph ?
Type of stress that is created by rocks slipping past each other.
What is shearing?
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What is an anticline?
Waves that compress and expand.
What are P-waves?
The San Andreas fault represents this boundary.
What is a transform boundary?
Place where the strongest earthquake recorded occurred
Where is Chile?
The cause when rocks are pressed together and crumble
What is compression?
The middle point or line in an anticline or syncline
What is an axis?
A wave that can travel through solid, liquid or gas
What are P-Waves?
80 percent of most earthquakes happen at this boundary
What is convergent boundary?