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2nd Weeks Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Convection | The transfer of energy by the movement. |
| S-wave | Move thought body of an object unlike surface wave. |
| P-wave | They are the first to show on a seismograph if a E.Q comes. |
| Surface wave | Goes across the earth surface. |
| Focus | The middle of an earthquake |
| Epicenter | The point on the earth surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake. |
| Mercalli scale | Used to measure the intensity of the earthquake. |
| Richter scale | To see the difference between other of or compare them form each other. |
| Moment-magnitude scale | Is used to measure the size of the earthquake. |
| Magnitude | A great size of the earthquake or something. |
| Tsunami | Long sea size. |
| liqurefaction | The process in which earthquake violent shacking |
| Aftershock | A little thing that happens after a big that happen previous. |
| subduction | the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantel beneath another plate. |
| seismology | Study's earthquakes and seismic waves that move thought earth |
| seismograph | It records earthquake's |
| Compression | Stress that squeeze rock until it folds or breaks |
| Tension | stress that stretches a rock so that it becomes thinner |
| Plateau | A landform that high elevation |
| Shearing | Stree that pushes masses of a rock |
| normal fault | A tyep of fault where that hanging wall slides downward |
| Reverse Fault | A type of fault where the hanging wall slides upward |
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