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equator terms
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| earthquake | vibration of the earth produced by a rapid release of energy |
| focus | the point where the earthquake waves are generated |
| faults | a break in the continuity of a body of rock |
| continental drift | the lateral movement of continents resulting from the motion of crustal plates |
| plate tectonics | a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates |
| earths crust | the outer layer of earth |
| foreshocks | shocks that come before major earthquakes |
| san andreas fault | the biggest fault in the world |
| elastic energy | potential energy that is stored when a body is deformed |
| fault creep | slow, more or less continuous movement occurring on faults due to ongoing tectonic deformation |
| aftershocks | small shock after earthquake |
| normal fault | crack forming when plates move away from each other |
| divergent boundary | a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other |
| thrusts fault | crack forming where plates move together |
| convergent plate boundary | an actively deforming region where two tectonic plates or fragments of lithosphere move toward one another and collide |
| seismic waves | waves of force that travel through the Earth |
| surface waves | electromagnetic wave guided by a refractive index gradient |
| body waves | a seismic wave that moves through the interior of the earth |
| elastic rebound | |
| stick-slip | fast movement that occurs between two sides of a fault when the two sides of the fault become unstuck |
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