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| Term | Definition |
| Hypothesis | An educated guess. |
| Independent Variable | What I changed in the experiment. |
| Dependent Variable | The data and the results. |
| Constant | Something that we repeat during the experiment. |
| Convergent | coming closer together |
| Divergent | tending to be different or develop |
| Transfrom | A change |
| S-wave | A surface wave |
| P-wave | That shakes the ground back and forth in the same direction and opposite direction |
| Surface wave | a surface wave is a mechanical wave |
| focus | The center of the earth |
| Epicenter | the point on the earth's surface |
| mercalli Scale | A scale to describe the earthquake |
| Ritcher Scale | to assign a number |
| moment-magnitude scale | To measure the size of earthquake |
| mangitude | Number to quantify the size of an earthquake |
| Tusnami | A large wave on the ocean caused by an earthquake under the sea |
| Liquefaction | Effect caused by earthquake shaking |
| aftershock | Shocks that follow the largest shock of an earthquake sequence |
| seismology | Study of earthquakes and the structure of the earth |
| seismograph | An instrument used to detect and record earthquakes |
| compression | The stress that squeezes the earth due to earthquake |
| Tension | Stress that pulls earth apart due to earthquake |
| plateau | An area of relatively level high ground |
| shearing | Is the stress parallel to given surface |
| Normal fault | Is a fracture along with the blocks of crust on either side |
| Reverse fault | When two blocks of rock are forced together by compression |
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