Earthquakes

The point where the earthquake occurs 

• Trench
• Focus
• Epicenter
• Intensity 

An earthquake wave that follows the main shock of an earthquake 

• Seismic Wave 
• Plate boundary 
• aftershock
• subduction

A measure of the total amount of energy released at the focus of an earthquake 

• Intensity 
• Focus 
• Aftershock
• Magnitude 

A place where pieces of broken lithosphere meet: convergent, divergent, transform

• Plate Tectonics 
• Mid Ocean Ridge 
• Trench 
• Plate boundary 

The shaking and vibrating of the earth 

• Focus 
• Aftershock 
• Earthquake
• Seismologist 

A scientist who studies earthquakes 

• Biologist 
• Meteorologist 
• Chemist 
• Seismologist 

Vibrations that travel through the earth carrying energy from an earthquake 

• Seismic waves 
• intensity 
• Focus 
• fault 

The point on the earth's surface directly above the point where earthquakes occur

• Fault 
• Epicenter 
• Magnitude 
• Focus 

A measure of the damage done by an earthquake 

• Seismograph 
• Earthquake 
• Trench 
• Intensity 

A theory that the lithosphere is broken into segments or plates that float on the asthenosphere 

• Plate Tectonics 
• Plate Boundary 
• Subduction
• Mid Ocean Ridge