Earthquake Introduction

Up and down

• vertical

• horizontal

Side to side

• vertical

• horizontal

A sudden, violent shaking of the Earth

• fault

• earthquake

• constructive

• destructive

Able to cause damage or destroy

• constructive

• destructive

Able to build or construct

• constructive

• destructive

Earthquakes can be both constructive and destructive

• True

• False

Why were myths created?

• To explain events in war

• To explain events in government

• To explain events in nature

• To explain events in space

A crack in the Earth

• fault

• split

• canyon

• valley

Aftershocks are vibrations felt after an earthquake has stopped.

• True

• False

A person who studies earthquakes

• Chemist

• Biologist

• Seismologist

• Archaeologist