Mountains
The four types of mountains.
What are volcanic, domed, folded and fault-block?
The fastest type of earthquake wave.
What are primary or P waves?
Scientists who study earthquakes.
What are seismologists?
A weak earthquake is referred to as this.
What is a tremor?
A giant sea wave caused by an earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
The type of mountain formed when magma is forced beneath overlaying rock layers creating a "blister."
What is domed?
The slowest type of earthquake waves.
These earthquakes that are caused by the movement of rock below the earth's surface.
What are tectonic earthquakes?
The first waves felt during an earthquake are these.
What are primary or P waves?
The name of a famous strike-slip fault in Western California, which released an earthquake that interrupted the 1989 World Series.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
The type of mountain formed when the edges of two plates are pushed together causing them to buckle.
What is folded?
The only type of wave to travel through solids, liquids, and gases.
What are primary waves?
Smaller quakes that may follow a bigger quake for days or weeks.
What are aftershocks?
The point beneath the earth's surface where an earthquake begins.
What is the focus?
The sudden movement of rock masses along a fault.
What is faulting?
The Cascade Mountains are examples of this type.
What are volcanoes?
These waves are known to cause the most damage.
What are surface waves?
The place on earth's surface directly above where an earthquake begins.
What is the epicenter?
An earthquake can result in this formation when Rocks on one side of the fault are lifted higher than on the other side, creating a small cliff.
What is a fault-scarp?
The idea that rocks on either side of a fault spring back to a position of little or no strain at the moment of an earthquake, causing vibrations in the earth's crust.
What is Elastic Rebound Theory?
The tallest volcano on earth.
What is Mauna Kea?
These types of waves can move like the waves of the ocean, in a rolling motion.
What are surface waves?
Where 80% of earthquakes occur.
What is the Circum-Pacific Belt?
The Crescent City Tsunami of 1964 was triggered by an earthquake in this state.
What is Alaska?
A smoothly polished rock surface that is the result of rock moving along a fault.
What is a slickenside?