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1 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt Locating Earthquakes Continental Drift Earthquake Terms Earth’s Interior Plates FJ

2 Minimum number of seismographs needed to locate the epicenter ?

3 3

4 Difference in arrival times of the P- & S- waves increases as the distance from the epicenter ______

5 increases

6 The process we used to locate the epicenter is called

7 triangulation

8 Number of earthquakes predicted in a meaningful time

9 0

10 If there is no difference between the arrival times of the P- & S- waves, you are located at the _____

11 epicenter

12 Name of the super-continent

13 Pangaea

14 Continents that look like they fit together

15 South America and Africa

16 James Hutton’s theory

17 Uniformitarianism

18 Why no one believed Wegener

19 He had no idea what moved the continents

20 Hawaii is forming over a _____ ______

21 Hot spot

22 Number of major plates

23 Around 10-12

24 Alternate name for plate

25 lithosphere

26 Type of rock that ocean plates are made of

27 basalt

28 What the plates slide on

29 asthenosphere

30 What part(s) of the earth’s interior make up the plates

31 Crust and upper part of the upper mantle

32 The thickest layer of the earth’s interior

33 mantle

34 Thinnest layer of the earth

35 crust

36 Which layer is liquid

37 Outer core

38 List the earth layers in order

39 Crust, mantle, outer core, & inner core

40 What element is the inner core composed of

41 Iron

42 Damage done by an earthquake is defined by

43 intensity

44 Instrument that measures the magnitude of an earthquake

45 seismograph

46 Movement along a fracture

47 fault

48 The difference in strength between a 5 and 6 on the Richter scale is _____ times

49 31

50 What are the 2 surface waves

51 Love & rayleigh

52 List the 4 associated dangers to the actual earthquake Earthquake dangers Liquefaction, fire storms, aftershocks, & tsunamis


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