Earth Changes Vocabulary Week 1

Earth's Changes

By Beth Severson

something with great size; huge or immense

An earthquake with a large magnitude is devastating for the people it effects.

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​Magnitude

Something that crashed into something else


The rock collided with a tree as it fell down the hill.

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Collided

twisting or taking something apart


The delivery man wrenched the crate open with a crowbar.

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wrenching

happening in a scary or evil way;


The wind howled ominously as the tornado came toward our house.

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ominously

slabs of the earth's crust that move underneath the earth's surface that cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
The shift in the tectonic plates caused earthquakes all over Asia.

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tectonic plates

a machine or instrument that measures the shaking of the earth during an earthquake


The seismograph indicated the earthquake had an enormous magnitude, or size.

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seismograph