Seismology
Parts of an Earthquake
Earthquake Waves
Types of Boundaries
Misc.
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What is the science in which earthquakes are studied?
Seismology
100
What is the point inside Earth where an earthquake begins?
focus
100
What are the waves that travel through the inside of the Earth?
Body Waves
100
Oceanic vs Continental Convergent boundary
100
What was the land mass called when all of the continents were together?
Pangea
200
What do seismologists use to determine when an earthquake started?
Seismogram
200
What is the point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquakes starting point?
Epicenter
200
What are the fastest seismic waves that can travel through solids, liquids, and gases called?
P Waves
200
continental vs continental convergent boundary
200
What is it called when a plate is drawn to the center of the earth & melted
Subduction
300
What do seismologists use to measure earthquake strength?
Richter Magnitude Scale
300
What is the name for a break in Earth's crust where tectonic plates slide?
Fault
300
What waves stretch rock sideways and cannot travel through liquids?
S Waves
300
oceanic oceanic divergent boundary
300
How fast are the plates moving? (as fast as.... not a number)
As fast as your fingernails grow
400
What is the measurement of the strength of an earthquake called?
Magnitude
400
What are the giant pieces of Earth's outer layer where most earthquakes occur called?
tectonic plates
400
What type of SURFACE wave moves in a rolling/ wave-like fashion?
Rayleigh Waves
400
This is not a plate boundary. But what is it?
A Hot Spot
400
Mt. St. Helens and other volcanoes along the West coast are created due to this type of plate boundary.
Oceanic vs. Continental Convergent plate boundary (subduction zone = melted crust = magma rises = volcano)
500
How is magnitude measured via the Richter Scale?
Logarithmically
500
What are the two types of waves of energy that travel THROUGH EARTH'S BODY called?
P and S waves
500
What body wave moves through compression?
P waves
500
Transform boundary
500
This is the type of stress put on a plate at a divergent boundary.
Tension