Earth Science

The first type of body wave. It is capable of propagating through solid and liquid.

• First Waves

• G-waves

• S,L-waves

• P-waves

The boundary between the Crust and Mantle

• Guttenberg Discontinuity

• Leeman Discontinuity

• Mohorovicic Discontinuity

• Alfred Discontinuity

The type of plate boundary where two plates diverges into into one another.

• Divergent Plate Boundary

• Convergent Plate Boundary

• Transform-fault Boundary

The type of plate boundary where two plates crushes into one another and the denser one subducts.

• Convergent plate boundary

• Divergent plate boundary

• Transform fault boundary

• Crushing boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The third type of plate boundary where 2 or more plates slides past each other

• Transform Boundary

• Transform-slip Boundary

• Transform-slide Boundary

• Transform-fault Boundary

The outer core is liquid unlike its inner counterpart. These part of the Earth that is made of molten metal such as Iron and Nickel flows inside the Earth creating electric currents, henceforth creating the Earth's _ .

• Volcanic Activity

• Magnetic Field

• Earthquakes

• Continental Drift

The magnitude scale is logarithmic. A magnitude 8 earthquake is not 1 times stronger than magnitude 7. Instead it is _ times stronger

• 10

• 32

• 25

• 45

The 2 types of surface waves

• Rayleigh Waves

• Happy Waves

• Shanks Waves

• Love Waves

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

The second type of body waves. Only capable of propagating through solid.

• M-waves

• R-waves

• S-waves

• L-waves

The culminative term for the Crust and Upper Mantle.

• Crust-Upper Mantle Discontinuity

• Lithosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Magnetosphere