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Earthquakes

TermDefinition
Earthquake Vibrations in the earth caused by the sudden release or energy
Crust the earth layor
Fault a fracture in bedrock along witch blockers of rocks en opposite side of the fracture moves
Mantle the layer of the total amount of crust it's about 2 mythic
Lithosphere the cool solid outer shell of the earth.
Lithosphere Plates The ridge outer part of the earth
seismologist Earthquake
Convergent coming closet together. It has trenches and fults
divergent Tending and develop in different ways. It has ridges, hiltops and mountains
transform Make a through or dramatic change in the form.
p wave causes buildings to contract and expand
s wave shakes buildings from side to side
surface wave shakes buildings violently
Moment Magnitude scale is a system that helps science tell how big the earthqkes is
Focus the point beneath the earth surface at which rock under stress breaks and triggers an earthquake
Epicenter the point of the surface directly above the point at which an earthquake occurs
seismograph records ground movement caused by seismic waves as they move through the earth
Liquefaction The process in wich an earthquake violent shaking turns loose,soft soil into liquid mud
Aftershocks An earthquake that occurs after a larger earthquake in the same area
Tsunamis Large ocean waves usually caused by stronger earthquake below the ocean floor.
compression squeez the rock
tension pulls the crust
plateau is a large area of flat land elevated high above sea level
sheving stress that pushes mass of rock different directions
normal fault the wall that move doneword
reverse fault the wall that moves upword
subdetion is when it goes sideways and downward movement
convection it is when the movement caused within a fluid
mercalli scale it tells the sctinetest the measuring of an earthquake.
Ricter scale it is for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake
magnitued the szie of the earthquake
Created by: 1964186036
 

 



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