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Is a continental or oceanic plate older? Continental
is is possiblle for an earthquke to occur during a transfom boundry? yes, becouse it will couse friction and eventually relese the tention.
what is an eathquke with a really strong magnitude called? a superquack
whare would be a major earthquack zone in california? san anrayas fualt
what are plate tectonics and what do they carry? they carry continents, they are a theory that states that plates are moving constently a few cm each year.
who came up with the idea of continental drift? lois van wegner
wich type of wave is the most dangorus? surface waves, becouse there solw and can couse alot of damage to buldings.
what type of wave is related to earthquacks? sismic waves
what should humans so to perpair for earthquacks? buld buldings proprly and collect iformation.
what is the strenghy of an earthquake known as? the magnitude
what is the foucous of the earthquke? the oint whare the earthquke starts
what is a sisimigraph usesd to messure? the strengths of the earthquake
what is the epicenter? the point of ground level sirectly about the foucus
whats a richer scale? its used to indicate the strenth of an earthquake
what is an earthquke? a sudden movment of the earths suface.
what is the super continent that existed years ago? pangea
what are the plates always doing? moving
what is friction and what can it couse? it is when 2 plates rub against each other and produce energy and heat once the energy is created it will entally relese and couse a quake
when plates are moving apart will it make new crust? yes, new cust is created by the magma in the mantel.
what happens at a divergent boundy? plates move apart
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