Fault Vocab
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| plateau | large level of flat land elevated high above sea level
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| compression | squeezes rock until it folds or breaks
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| hanging wall | block of rock that forms the upper half of a fault
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| normal fault | hanging wall slides downward caused by tension in the crust
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| shearing | stress that pushes rock in 2 opposite directions
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| tension | pulls on crust stretching on it so it’s thinner in the middle
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| strike-slip fault | rocks on either side move past each other sideways
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| stress | force that acts on a rock to change its shape or volume
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| anticline | upper fold in rock caused by compression in crust
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| syncline | downward fold in rock caused by compression in crust
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| footwall | block of rock that forms lower half of fault
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| reverse fault | hanging wall slides upward caused by compression in crust
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| rift valley | a deep valley that forms where two plates move apart
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| seismologists | people who study the vibrations that travel through Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake
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| frequency | measures the rate or speed of a sound wave vibration
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| wavelength | the distance between the crest of one wave and the crest of the next wave
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| amplitude | measures the intensity of a sound wave
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| P wave | a type of seismic wave that compresses and expands the ground
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| S wave | a type of seismic wave that moves the ground up and down or side to side
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| surface wave | a type of seismic wave that forms when P waves and S waves reach Earth's surface
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