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Academic vocab
academic vocab
Question | Answer |
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EARTHQUAKES | a movement or trembling of the ground that is caused by a sudden release of energy |
FOCUS | the location within earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs |
EPICENTER | the point on earths surface directly above an erath quake starting point or focus |
TECTONIC PLATE BOUNDARY | Plate tectonics is a scientific theory that describes the large-scale motions of Earth's lithosphere. The model builds on the concepts of continental drift, developed during the first few decades of the 20th century. . |
FAULT | a break in a body of rock along which one block moves relative to another |
DEFORMATION | the bending tilting and breaking of earths crust the change in the shape of rock in response to stress |
ELASTIC REBOUND | the sudden return of elastically deformed rock to its unformed shape |