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chapter 8 & 10 vocab
chapter 8 and 10 voc
Term | Definition |
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earthquake | a sudden and violent shaking of the ground |
focus | the point of origin in a earthquake |
seismic waves | an elastic wave in the earth produced by an earthquake |
epicenter | the point above earths surface vertically above the focus of a earthquake |
elastic rebound | |
body waves | |
P waves | |
S waves | |
surface waves | |
seismograph | |
seismogram | |
Richter Scale | |
Moment Magnitude Scale | |
Modified Mercalli Scale | |
liquefaction | |
tsunami | |
seismic gap | |
crust | |
mantle | |
outer core | |
inner core | |
Moho | |
ring of fire | |
hot spot | |
viscosity | |
vent | |
pyroclastic material | |
volcano | |
crater | |
sheild volcano | |
cinder cone | |
composite volcano | |
caldera | |
lahar | |
pluton | |
sill | |
laccolith | |
dike | |
batholith |