earth
The third planet from the sun
what is earth?
The study of seismice waves
What is seismolgy?
Tectonic plates slide horizontally past each other
What is Transform Boundary?
Is the inner core a solid or an liquid?
What is solid?
It helps to provide the necessary nutrients required to plants
What is the Lithosphere?
An imaginary straight line around which an object spins
What is an Axis?
The very hot, very dense center of our planet
What's the earth's core?
A region around much of the rim of the Pacific Ocean where many volcanic eruptions
What is the Ring Of Fire?
A longtitdude earthquake wave that travel through the interior of the earth
What is p-wave?
An area on Earth where two or more lithospheric plates collide
What is an Convergent Boundary?
A seismic wave that travels along or parallel to the earth's surface
What is surface wave?
A scale of earthquake intensity ranging from I for an earthquake detected only by seismographs to XII for one causing total destruction of all buildings.
What is mercalli?
What is asthenosphere?
The point on the earth's surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake
What is epicenter?
The world's largest and most diverse continent
What is Asia?
Measures the magnitude of an earthquake (how powerful it is)
What is richter scale?
How many planets are there in the Solar System?
What is eight?
A transverse earthquake earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismegraph
What is a s-wave?
Earthquakes that precede larger earthquakes in the same location
What is foreshock?
Either oceanic plate descends below another oceanic plate or an oceanic plate descends below a continental plate.
What is volcanoes formed at convergent plate boundaries?
An intense shaking of Earth's surface.
What is an Earthquake?
how many continents are in the world?
What is seven?
Is a method of heat transfer. In the asthenosphere, magma is heated and rises, cool magma falls. This results in plate movement.
What is Convectional Currents?
The study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources and political and economic activities.
What is Geography?
lower layers of the crust, ____ being under land and ____ being under the ocean floor.
What is Sial & Sima?