Earth Science Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| tsunami | large ocean wave created by undersea eathquakes or volcanic eruptions |
| Lithosphere | rigid layer of earth about 100 km thick , mad o the crust and a part of the upper mantle. |
| Ring Of Fire | the zone of earthquakes and volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean |
| Ritcher Scale | used to measure the strength of earthquakes |
| Seismograph | An instrument used to detect and record earthquakes |
| fault | a crack oin the eaths surface along which movement takes place |
| Focus | point deep inside Earth where energy is released causing an earthquake |
| Epicenter | point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus |
| Subduction | the process of an ocenic plate colliding with descending underneath a continental plate |
| Fault | fracture that occurs when rocks break and that results in relative movements of opposing sides ; can form as a result of compression (reserve fault) , being pulled apart(normal fault) , or shear (strike-slip fault) |
| Mexico | this country's capital city was devastaded in by an earthquake in 1985 |
| seismic waves | waves from an earthquake are known as these |
| Lava | molten rock flowing onto Earth's surface |
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