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The Past
Stress and faults
Earthquakes
Waves
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A capital letter represents what type of allele?
What is a dominant allele
100
Plates slipping past each other in opposite directions is known as....?
What is shearing
100
Point below the surface where the stress of an earthquake occurs?
What is the focus
100
This wave moves by compressing and expanding.
What is a p wave.
100
What does a seismograph record?
What are the ground movements caused by seismic waves.
200
True or false, bb is heterozygous dominant?
What is False, heterozygous recessive
200
What type of stress produces reverse faults?
What is compression
200
What causes damage days or months after earthquakes?
What are aftershocks.
200
S waves are known as?
What are secondary waves.
200
A large area of flat land high above sea level is a ____?
What is a plateau.
300
Name a symptom of hemophilia.
What is the blood does not clot.
300
Any change of the Earth's crust is known as? (volume or shape)
What is deformation
300
A large wave of water approaching the shore as a result of an earthquake is known as?
What is a tsunami
300
Compared to P and S waves surface waves move faster of slower?
What is slower.
300
The rating system that estimates the total energy released during an earthquake?
What is the Richter scale.
400
Name 2 genetic disorders besides hemophilia.
What is Down syndrome, Sickle cell, or Cystic fibrosis.
400
Tension is the type of stress that is pulled in ____________ directions.
What is opposite
400
What is the best way to protect yourself during an earthquake?
What is drop, cover, and hold.
400
What direction are seismic waves carried?
What is away from the focus.
400
This country received a tsunami warning yesterday.
What is Indonesia
500
Alfred Wegner is known for this theory.
What is the continental drift theory.
500
When plates move apart this is called a _______ fault.
What is a Normal Fault
500
Most earthquake deaths and injuries are a result of?
What is damage to buildings and structures
500
The point above the earth's surface where an earthquake begins.
What is the epicenter
500
How are earthquakes and volcanoes related?
They tend to occur near the same areas.