Earthquakes- Bold Words

A force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume?

• stress
• focus
• friction
• fracture

Strategy used to help a structure survive earthquakes by absorbing the energy of the quake?

• cushion
• footings
• compression
• base isolated building

Stress that stretches rock so that it becomes thinner in the middle!

• tension
• compression
• sheear
• rubber-binder

An earthquake that occurs after a larger one in the same area?

• strike-slip
• S Wave
• aftershock
  aftershock
• anticline

The process by which an earthquake's violent movement suddenly turns loose soil into liquid mud!

• tsunami
  tsunami
• S Wave
• liquefaction
• syncline

A force that opposed the motion of one surface as it moves across another surface?

• compression
• tension
• shear
• friction

Stress that squeezes rock!

• tension 
• compression
• shear
• boa constriction

Stress that pushes masses of rock in opposite directions, in a sideways movement?

• shear
• compression
• tension
• constriction

A type of fault where the hanging wall slides down...caused by tension.

• normal fault
• strike-slip fault
• reversynclinese fault

The record of an earthquake's seismic waves produced by a seismograph?

• P Wave
• seismogram
• S Wave
• E.K.G.