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chp 6 vocab bailey b
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plate | a large section of earths crust and ridged upper mantle that moves around on the asthenosphere |
fault | surface alongwhich rocks move when they pass thier elastic limit and break |
earthquake | vibrations produced when rocks break aong a fault |
normal fault | break in rock caused by tension forces, where rock above the fault surface moves down relative to the rock below the fault surface |
reverse fault | break in rock caused by compressive forces, where rock above the fault surface moves upward relative to the rock below the fault surface |
strike-slip fault | break in rock caused by shear forces, when rocks move past each other without much vertical movement |
wave | rythmic movement that carries enery through matter and space |
seismic wave | wave generated by an earthquake |
focus | in an earthquake, the point belopw earths surface where energy is released in the form of a seismic wave |
primary wave | seismic wave that moves rock particles back and forth in the same direction that the wave travels |
surface wave | seismic wave that moves rock particles up-and-down in a backward rolling motion and side-to-side in a swaying motion |
epicenter | point on earths surface directly above an earthquakes focus |
seismograph | instrumentr used to register earthquake waves and record the time that each arrived |
crest | the highest point of a wave |
magnitude | measure of the energy released durning an earthquake |
liquefaction | occurs when wet soil acts more like liquid during an earthquake |
tsunami | seismic sea wave that begins over an earthquake focus and can be highly destructive when it crashes ashore |