Earthquakes

Vibrations caused when stress makes rocks pass their elastic limit.

• epicenter

• Earthquake

• strike-slip

• surface wave

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The fault where forces are pulling apart.

• Strike-slip

• Reverse

• Normal

• divergent

This instrument is used to record seismic waves

• Seismograph

• Seismogram

• Seismologist

• Seismologic

Type of wave that causes particles in rocks to move back and forth in the same direction as the wave

• love

• secondary

• surface

• primary

The type of waves that make particles move at right angles to the direction of the wave

• secondary

• love

• primary

• surface

The point on earth's surface about the focus

• strike-slip fault

• secondary

• epicenter

• focus

The amount of energy released by an earthquake is a measure of what?

• focus

• epicenter

• force

• magnitude

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

The fault that occurs when two plates are moving sideways past each other.

• normal

• reverse

• strike-slip

• transform

A seismic sea wave that can cause mass destruction

• tsunami

• focus

• epicenter

• magnitude

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Fault line where the rocks above the fault surface are forced up and over the rocks below the surface

• normal fault

• reverse fault

• strike-slip fault

• convergent