Earthquakes and Tectonics Vocab Waves Boundaries General Info Random

The point on Earth’s surface directly above the earthquakes focus Answer

Epicenter Home

Energy released in the form of vibrations that travel outward in all directions from the focus through the surrounding rock Answer

Seismic Waves Home

A primary wave, or compression wave, that causes rock to move in a back and forth motion Answer

P Waves Home

A giant ocean wave that forms after an earthquake Answer

Tsunami Home

A region of numerous, closely spaced faults Answer

Fault Zone Home

A secondary body wave that causes rock to move in a side to side motion Answer

Home S wave

The location within Earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs Answer

Focus Home

This type of surface wave moves side to side and perpendicular to the direction the waves are traveling Answer

Love wave Home

This type of surface wave causes the ground to move with an elliptical, rolling motion Answer

Raleigh Wave Home

The primary, compression wave that moves through solids and liquids Answer

Home. P waves

Boundary between two plates that are colliding, creating a mountain range Answer

Convergent Home

Boundary where two plates are dividing, creating a mid-ocean ridge Answer

Divergent Home

What is created when two oceanic plates collide? Answer

An Island Arc Home

The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally Answer

Transform Boundary Home

What type of boundary commonly causes earthquakes? Answer

Transform Boundary Home

Answer What is the sudden return of elastically deformed rock to its undeformed shape, causing an earthquake?

Elastic Rebound Home

What can studying seismic waves tell scientists? Answer

What the layers of the Earth are made of, and where the shadow zones are located Home

What is can be created when an earthquakes epicenter is on the ocean floor? Answer

Tsunami Home

What is the strength of an earthquake? Answer

Home Magnitude

Answer What do we call the amount of damage an earthquake does?

Intensity Home

What are the two body waves we have learned about? Answer

Primary and Secondary waves ( P and S waves) Home

What instrument creates a Seismogram? Answer

Seismograph Home

What are the two types of surface waves we learned about? Answer

Love and Raleigh Waves Home

True or False: The closer a city is to an epicenter, the more likely it is to have substantial damage Answer

True Home

What are the two scales that measure magnitude? Answer

Richter scale and moment magnitude Home