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Abby chapter 6 vocab
Question | Answer |
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a large section of earths crust and rigid upper mantle that moves around on the asthenosphere | plate |
surface along which rocks move when they passs their elastic limit and break | fault |
vibrations produced when rocks break along a fualt | earthquake |
break ion rock caused by tension forces, where rock above the fault surface moves down relative to the rock below the fault surface | normal fault |
break in rock caused by compressive forces, where rock above the fault surfaces move upward rocks relative to the rock bleow the fault surface | reverse fault |
break in rock caused by shear forces, where rocks move past each other without much vertical movement | strike-slip fault |
rhythmic omvemenmt that carries energy though matter and space | wave |
wave genersted by an earthquake | seismic wave |
in an earthquake, the point below Earths surface where energy is released in the form of seismic waves | focus |
seismic wave that moves rock particles back-and-forth in the sane direction that the wave travels | primary wave |
seismic wave that moves rocks particles at rigth angles to the direction of the wave | secondary wave |
seismic waves that moves rock particles up-and-down in backward rolling motion and side-to-side ina swaying motion | surface wave |
point on Earths surface directly above an earthquakes focus | epicenter |
instrument used to register earthquake waves and record the time that each arrived | seismograph |
the highest point of a wave | crest |
measure of the energy released during an earthquake | magnitude |
occurs when wet soil acts more like a liquid during an earthquake | liquefaction |
seismic seawave that begins over an earthquake focus and can be highly destructive when it crashes on shore | tsunami |