Earthquakes TEST

The exterior solid part of the Earth's surface

• aftershocks

• conflagrations

• crust

smaller quakes that come after a major earthquake

• aftershocks

• conflagration

masses of snow falling down a hil

• conflagration

• avalanche

edges of two of Earth's tectonic plates

• faults

• focus

the earthquake and volcano belt in countries that border the Pacific Ocean

• Continental Drift

• Ring of Fire

the theory that holds that the continents of the world move a few inches every year

• Continental Drift

• Avalanche

the measuring system invented by Dr. Charles F. Richter to gauge the strength of earthquakes

• Seismology

• Fossils

• Richter Scale

instruments that make a record of the time, duration, direction, and intensity of earthquakes

• Seismograph

• Ring of Fire

• Richter Scale

large ocean waves caused by a seaquake or an earthquake

• tsunami

• avalanche

the impression of an animal or plant left in a rock deposit; sometimes the animal or plant is also found in the deposit

• fault

• fossil