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Forces in the Earth's Crust
Earth Layers
Tectonic Plates
Earthquake Vocabulary
Earthquake Riddles
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This type of stress causes two rocks to slip past one another.
What is shearing?
100
The largest layer of Earth.
What is the Mantle?
100
A seismograph does this.
What is records seismic waves?
100
The science of the study of the earth; the study of the rocks the make up the earth
What is geological?
100
What do cows produce during an earthquake?
What are Milkshakes?
200
An instrument that detects and measures earthquakes is a
What is a seismograph?
200
Layer of the Earth in the thinnest
What is the crust?
200
This is the name of the waves drawn on paper by a seismograph.
What is a seismogram?
200
This is the area underground where the seismic waves of an earthquake originate.
What is the focus?
200
What did the ground say to the earthquake?
What is You crack me up?
300
This is a large area of flat land elevated high above sea level.
What is a plateau?
300
Layer is made up of two different kinds of layers, oceanic and continental?
What is the Crust?
300
Mountains form from this plate boundary
What is convergent plates (collision of plates)?
300
The breaking or bursting of the earth’s surface
What is Rupture?
300
What's worse than an earthquake ravaging a city?
What is: The ensuing Tsunami washing everything away!
400
A smaller earthquake that follows a larger earthquake
What is an aftershock?
400
The layers of Earth in order from densest to least dense.
What are Inner core, Outer core, Mantle, Crust?
400
The following is associated with transform boundary
What are earthquakes and fault line?
400
The underground point of an earthquake; a synonym is hypocenter
What is the focus?
400
What happens when a building falls down in San Francisco?
What is: Everyone knows it's San Andreas' Fault!
500
These are the three types of stress.
What are shearing, compression and tension?
500
This is the motion that surface waves make.
What are Crust, Mantle, Outer core, Inner core?
500
The name given to all the continents when they were joined as one super continent
What is Pangea?
500
The point on the earth’s surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake.
What is a epicenter?
500
An Earthquakes favorite song.
What is "Shake, Rattle and Roll!"