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Chapter 8 sec 1 voca
vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Seismology | The study of earthquakes. |
| Deformation | The bending,tilting,and breaking of Earth's crust. |
| Elastic rebound | the sudden return of elastically deformed rock to its undeformed shape |
| seismic waves | a wave of energy that travels through the Earth and away from an earthquake in all directions |
| P-waves | a seismic wave that causes particles of rock to move in a back-and-forth direction |
| S-waves | a seismic wave that causes particles of rock to move in a side-to-side direction |