Earthquakes Word Scramble
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Earthquakes | The shaking and vibrating of the earth and when sudden realeses of energy |
Crust | The earths most outer layer |
Fault | A break or crack in the earths surface |
Mantle | The layer of hot solid material between earths crust and core |
Lithosphere | A layer made up of the mantle and crust |
Litospheric plates | Part of the crust and upper layer of the mantle always moving |
Seismologist | A scientist who studies earthquakes and changes of the earth |
P wave | The wave that is fastest and straight |
S wave | The second wave and does a little more damage |
Surface wave | The third wave and does the most damage |
Seismic wave | A wave of energy sent from the focus of the earthquake |
Focus | The very middle of the hurricane underground |
Epicenter | The one above the focus point |
Seismagraph | A device that records the ground movements caused by seismic waves |
Magnitude | A measurement of earthquake strength |
Ricter scale | Measures the power of the earthquake |
Mercalli scale | Meaure the damadge that is done |
Moment- magnitude scale | Measures how much energy realesed |
Liquefactoin | When the soil turns loose and turn to mud |
Aftershock | After the earthquake the is a small one after |
Tsunami | When there is an earthquake in the water realeses a huge wave |
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