Chapter 6 Vocabulary
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| Plate | A large section of Earth's crust and rigid upper mantle that moves around on the asthenosphere
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| Fault | Surfaces that broken rocks move across
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| Earthquake | The vibrations produced by the breaking of rock
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| Normal Fault | Rock above the fault surface moves downward in relation to rock below the fault surface
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| Reverse Fault | Surface is forced up and over the rock below the fault surface
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| Strike-slip Fault | Rocks on either side of the fault are moving past each other without much upward or downward movement
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| Wave | Rhythmic movement that carries energy through matter and space
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| Seismic Waves | Generated by an earthquake and travel through Earth
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| Focus | The point where the energy of an earthquake first occurs
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| Primary Waves | Causes particles in rocks to move back and forth in the same direction that the wave is traveling
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| Secondary Waves | Move through Earth by causing particles in rocks to move at right angles to the direction the wave travels
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| Surface Waves | Move rock particles in a backward, rolling motion and side to side in a swaying moton
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| Epicenter | The point on Earth's surface directly above the earthquake focus
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| Seismograph | An instrument that measures seismic waves from earthquakes
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| Crest | The highest point of a wave
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| Magnitude | The height of lines traced on the paper of a seismograph is the measure of the energy that is released of the earthquake
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| Liquefaction | The shaking from an earthquake causing soil to act like liquid
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| Tsunamis | ocean waves caused by earthquakes and are called seismic sea waves
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