1. Earthquakes and Tectonics Vocab Waves Boundaries General Info Random 100 200 300 400 500

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

3. Epicenter Home

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

5. Seismic Waves Home

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

7. P Waves Home

8. A giant ocean wave that forms after an earthquake Answer

9. Tsunami Home

10. A region of numerous, closely spaced faults Answer

11. Fault Zone Home

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

13. Home S wave

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

15. Focus Home

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

17. Love wave Home

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

19. Raleigh Wave Home

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

21. Home. P waves

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

23. Convergent Home

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

25. Divergent Home

26. What is created when two oceanic plates collide? Answer

27. An Island Arc Home

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

29. Transform Boundary Home

30. What type of boundary commonly causes earthquakes? Answer

31. Transform Boundary Home

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

33. Elastic Rebound Home

34. What can studying seismic waves tell scientists? Answer

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

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

37. Tsunami Home

38. What is the strength of an earthquake? Answer

39. Home Magnitude

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

41. Intensity Home

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

43. Primary and Secondary waves ( P and S waves) Home

44. What instrument creates a Seismogram? Answer

45. Seismograph Home

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

47. Love and Raleigh Waves Home

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

49. True Home

50. What are the two scales that measure magnitude? Answer

51. Richter scale and moment magnitude Home