ch6 vocabulary Word Scramble
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plate | a large selection of earths crust and rigd upper mantle that moves around on the astheneosphere |
fault | when rocks break and move along surfaces |
earthquake | is the vibrations produced by breaking of raock |
normal fault | when tentionalforces inside the earth cause rocks to be pulled apart |
reverse fault | when the surface is forced up and over the rock below the fault surface |
strike slipfault | when rock on either side of the fault are moving past each other without much upward or downward movement |
wave | rhythmic movement that carries energy through matter and space |
seismic waves | generated by an earthquake traveled through earth |
focus | the point were this energy release first occurs |
primary wave | cause particles in rocks to move... |
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