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Earthquake Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Earthquake | A series of vibration induced in the earth's crust. |
Crust | The earth's outer layer the coolest and least dense layer of the earth. |
Fault | A fracture in bedrock along which blocks of rock on opposite side of the fracture move. |
Mantle | Something that covers,envelops, or conceals. |
Lithosphere | The crust and upper mantle of the earth. |
Lithospheric Plates | Are regions of earth's crust and upper mantle that are fracture into plates that move across deeper Plasticine mantle. |
Seismologists | The science of earthquakes and their phenomena. |
Convergent | When the plates come closer together. |
Divergent | When the plates go Differ ways. |
Tranfrom | When the plates go past one other. |