Earthquakes

What is tension?

• pulling apart

• pushes together

• slides past

What is compression?

• Slides past

• pulls apart

• comes together

What is shearing?

• Comes together

• slides past

• pulls apart

What is a plateau?

• A large elevated area of land

• land that is folded

• land that has anticlines & synclines

What is an earthquake?

• Shaking of earth's crust

• the focus

• the epicenter

• a fault

What are P waves & how do they move?

• the first to arrive, compress and expand

• second waves, move side to side or up and down

• waves on the surface, move like a wave

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

What are S waves & how do they move?

• the first to arrive, compress and expand

• second waves, move side to side or up and down

• waves on the surface, move like a wave

What are surface waves & how do they move?

• the first to arrive, compress and expand

• second waves, move side to side or up and down

• waves on the surface, move like a wave

What are the types of features plate movement can change flat plains into?

• Anticlines & Synclines

• Folded Mountains

• Fault-Block Mountains

• Plateaus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the focus?

• The place above the earth's surface where the earthquake starts

• Both

• The place below the earth surface where the earthquake starts