chapter 6 science vocab words
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| Plate | a large section of earths crust and rigid upper mantel that moves around on the athenosphere
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| fault | surface along which rocks move when they pass their elastic limit and break
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| earthquake | vibartions produced when rocks break along a fault
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| normal fault | break in rock caused by tension forces where rock above the fault surfaces moves down relative to the rock below the fault surface
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| reverse fault | break in rock caused by compressive forces where rock above the fault surface moves up and towards relative to the rock below the fault surface
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| strike slip fault | break in rock caused by sheat forces where rocks move past eash other without much vertical movement
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| wave | rythmic movement that carries energy through matter and space
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| seismic waves | wave geverated by an earthquake
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| focus | in an earthquake the point below earth surfaces where energy is released in the form of seismic waves
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| primary waves | seismic wave that moves rock particles back and forth in the same direction that wave travels
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| secondary waves | seimic waves that moves rock particles at right andles to the directon of the waves
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| surface waves | seimic waves that moves rock paricle up and so down in a back rolling motion and a side to side swaying motion
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| epicenter | point on earths surface directly above an earhtquakes focus
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| seismograph | instrument used to register earthquake waves and record the time each arrived
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| crest | the highest point of a wave
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| magnitude | measure of the energy released during an earthquake
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| liquification | occurs when wet soil acts more like liquid durring an earthquake
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| tsumai | seismic sea wave that begins over and earthquake focus and can be hightly destructive when it crashes on the shore
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