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Science vocab ch.2
Last 14 words of chapter 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a type of seismic wave that compresses and expands the ground | P wave |
| a type of seismic wave that moves the ground up and down and side to side | S wave |
| a type of seismic wave that forms when P and S waves reach Earth's surface | surface wave |
| a scale that rates earthquakes according to their intensity and how much damage they cause at a particular place | Mercalli scale |
| the measurement of an earthquake's strength based on seismic waves and movement along faults | magnitude |
| a scale that rates an earthquake's magnitude based on the size of its seismic waves | Richter scale |
| a device that records ground movements caused by seismic waves as they move through Earth | seismograph |
| a type of scale that rates earthquakes by estimating the total amount of energy released by an earthquake | moment magnitude scale |
| the record of an earthquake's seismic waves produced by a seismograph | seismogram |
| the force that opposes the motion of one surface as it moves across another surface | friction |
| the process by which an earthquake's violent movement suddenly turns loose soil into liquid mud | liquefaction |
| a large wave produced by an earthquake on the ocean floor | tsunami |
| a building mounted on bearings designed to absorb the energy of an earthquake | base-isolated building |
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