Earth Shift
Scientist that study the earth, including rocks and fossils.
What is a geologist?
Shaking of the ground caused by a seismic wave near or where the plates of Earth's crust meet.
What is an earthquake?
A wave or series of waves caused by displaced water.
What is a tsunami?
Molten material from Earth's mantle after is has reached Earth's surface.
What is lava?
Movement of sediment from one loaction to another.
What is Erosion?
In geology, a large fragment of Earth's crust and upper mantle
What is a plate?
The size or extent of an earthquake.
What is magnitude?
To move into its space and push it out of position.
Molten material from Earth's mantle below Earth's surface.
What is Magma?
The process of breaking rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
Sediment compacted together formed where wind, ice, or water break down larger pieces of rock into smaller pieces.
What is a sedimentary rock?
These tools convert the vibrations caused by seismic waves into lines that look like a graph.
What is a seismograph?
Special buoys in the ocean to detect the rise and fall of waves.
What is a tsunameter?
A plume of magma that causes eruptions through Earth's crust without plates interacting.
What is a hot spot?
A hole in Earth's surface that develops when the ground collapses into space beneath it.
What is a sinkhole?
This forms when igneous or sedimentary rock is placed under tremendous heat or pressure.
What is a metamorphic rock?
Setting up warning alarm systems, building in areas where earthquake damage is less likely, designing buildings to withstand earthquakes
What can people do to live safely in Earthquake-prone areas?
Seawalls, natural barriers, and less building in vulnerable areas
What is tsunami preparedness?
A device used to sense when the surface is tilting more or less than it was the moment before.
What is a tiltmeter?
A form of mass movement in which a large section of a slope slides downhill all at once.
What is a landslide?
This is made of magma or lava that has cooled and hardened.
What is igneous rock?
The soil shifts or slides. Solid rocks move up and down or side to side. Landslides can form. Large water waves can occur and displaced water.
How do earthquakes affect Earth's surface?
This country experiences the most tsunamis due to where several of Earth's plates meet.
What is Japan?
This device allows geologists to measure the amount of sulfur dioxide gas released into the air.
What is a Spectrometer?
Planting more vegetation, building a retaining wall, and using concrete and steel pillars may prevent this.
What are natural and man-made solutions in preventing landslides?