Unit 5 Earthquake Vocabulary

At which of the following tectonic plate boundaries can an earthquake occur?

• transform

• convergent

• divergent

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What is a fault?

• the point on the Earth’s surface directly above an earthquake's starting point

• the location on the surface where two tectonic plates slide past each other.

•  point inside the Earth where an earthquake begins

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What is an epicenter?

• the point on the Earth’s surface directly above an earthquake's starting point

• the location on the surface where two tectonic plates slide past each other.

•  point inside the Earth where an earthquake begins

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What is a focus?

• the point on the Earth’s surface directly above an earthquake's starting point

• the location on the surface where two tectonic plates slide past each other.

•  point inside the Earth where an earthquake begins

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What are earthquake waves called?

• body waves

• surface waves

• seismic waves

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

what is the name of the waves of energy that travel through the earth?

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

Waves that travel through the Earth's interior

• body waves

• surface waves

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-1

Waves that travel along the Earth's surface

• body waves

• surface waves

Which of the following are the two types of body waves?

• s waves

• p waves

• surface waves

• shadow zones

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

which seismic wave causes particles of rock to move in a back-and-forth motion?

• s waves

• p waves

• surface waves