Structure of the Earth

a shock wave that compresses the medium through which it is transmitted

• compression wave

• lithosphere

• shear wave

• strata

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

geology that part of the earth's crust that underlies the continents and continental shelves

• seismic

• epicenter

• molten

• continental crust

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

a major geologic discontinuity or suture marking the juncture of lithospheric plates that have been joined by plate tectonics.

• tsunami

• convergent boundary

• molten

• strata

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.

• seismology

• fault

• divergent boundary

• plate tectonics

point, directly above the true center of disturbance, from which the shock waves of an earthquake apparently radiate.

• fault

• epicenter

• seismic

• lithosphere

A fracture in a rock formation along which there has been movement of the blocks of rock on either side of the plane of fracture.

• epicenter

• strata

• fault

• molten

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

the crust and upper mantle of the earth.

• lithosphere

• molten

• shear waves

• transition

any of several seismically active submarine mountain ranges that extend through the Atlantic, Indian,and South Pacific oceans

• tsunami

• mid-ocean ridge

• molten

• compression waves

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

liquefied by heat

• strata

• transition

• molten

• seismograph

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which moves on the plastic asthenosphere more or less independently to collide with, slide under, or move past adjacent plates

• seismic

• epicenter

• molten

• plate tectonics

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3