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Science
Term | Definition |
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Hypothesis | An educated guess. |
Independent Variable | What I changed in the experiment. |
Dependent Variable | The data and the results. |
Constant | Something that we repeat during the experiment. |
Convergent | coming closer together |
Divergent | tending to be different or develop |
Transfrom | A change |
S-wave | A surface wave |
P-wave | That shakes the ground back and forth in the same direction and opposite direction |
Surface wave | a surface wave is a mechanical wave |
focus | The center of the earth |
Epicenter | the point on the earth's surface |
mercalli Scale | A scale to describe the earthquake |
Ritcher Scale | to assign a number |
moment-magnitude scale | To measure the size of earthquake |
mangitude | Number to quantify the size of an earthquake |
Tusnami | A large wave on the ocean caused by an earthquake under the sea |
Liquefaction | Effect caused by earthquake shaking |
aftershock | Shocks that follow the largest shock of an earthquake sequence |
seismology | Study of earthquakes and the structure of the earth |
seismograph | An instrument used to detect and record earthquakes |
compression | The stress that squeezes the earth due to earthquake |
Tension | Stress that pulls earth apart due to earthquake |
plateau | An area of relatively level high ground |
shearing | Is the stress parallel to given surface |
Normal fault | Is a fracture along with the blocks of crust on either side |
Reverse fault | When two blocks of rock are forced together by compression |