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ground S.C.I

Earth S.C.I

TermDefinition
Earthquake Energy builds up along a fault and makes a earth quake.
Crust Outer layer of earth.Dirt,Rock.
Mantle Most inner part of earth.
Fault Where to plates press up agenst each other.
Sizemologest Studies earth quakes.
Sizemographic waves Measurement of earth vibrations.
S-waves vibration from earthquakes. Moves like a S-waves.
P-waves Vibrations from earthquakes.Moves strate.
Surface wave Vibrations of the earths crust.
foces The point of where the earthquake begin.
Magntude measures size or power of a earthquake.
Exspeader The point above focus on the crust.
Lithosphere Outer most layer of earth.
Lithosphere plate Tectonic plates.
Tusami Made by a earthquake thet is under water.
Liquidfacaion Made when wet soil is shook by earthquake and made into mud.
Base icolaters Meant to asord impact and give a smother ride.
Cross bracing Fastening beams in a way thet improves the stability of a structure.
Sheer core walls Bracing panels to the wall using synthetics and plywood.
base isolaters Work like springs to asord shock.
flexible pipe Bends as shock waves pass true.
mass damper-damper Work like car shock-asorbers in a car.
Stress movements building up in the earth.
Tenshen where the earth tears apart.
compreshon earth press together.
shearing where the earth rubs together.
Strike and slip falt where the earth rubs togeter with no up and down moshon.
Normal lower than the foot wall.
reverse where the hanging wall is higher than the foot wall
anticline a upward
sentialine a downward curve in the earths crust.
hange wall .the part of a normal or reverse fault thet moves.
foot wall the part of a normal or reverse fault douse not move.
Inner core The most inner part of the earth, it is made of solid metal.
Outer core Between the mesosphere and the inner core it is made of molten metal.
Rictor scail Identify the magnitude of a earthquake.
Mercalli scale Used to measure the intensity of a earthquake.
Baslt A dark rock thet covers the ochenantic crust.
Granit A rock thet covers the crust and the mesosphere
astrophere A taffy like layer in the earth in the upper mantle.
oceantic crust The layer of crust under the ocean composed of baslt.
Continental crust the land layer of crust.
Divergent Two plates moving apart.
Convergent Two plates moving together.
transfrorm Two plates grinding past each other.
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