3.4 Earthquakes Vocabulary quiz

Earthquakes

• A break in the earth's crust
• the bending, tilting, and breaking of Earth's crust; the change in the shape of rock in response to stress
• The point beneath Earth's surface where rock breaks under stress and causes an earthquake
• sudden movements of Earth's crust followed by a series of shocks

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Epicenter

• the sudden return of elastically deformed rock to its undeformed shape
• A break in the earth's crust
• Point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus
• A giant wave usually caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Focus

• The point beneath Earth's surface where rock breaks under stress and causes an earthquake
• the sudden return of elastically deformed rock to its undeformed shape
• seismic wave that moves rock particles at right angles to the direction of the wave
• A break in the earth's crust

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Fault

• A break in the earth's crust
• seismic wave that moves rock particles at right angles to the direction of the wave
• Point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus
• A giant wave usually caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor.

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Deformation

• the bending, tilting, and breaking of Earth's crust; the change in the shape of rock in response to stress
• The point beneath Earth's surface where rock breaks under stress and causes an earthquake
• sudden movements of Earth's crust followed by a series of shocks
• A break in the earth's crust

Elastic Rebound

• Point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus
• The point beneath Earth's surface where rock breaks under stress and causes an earthquake
• seismic wave that moves rock particles back and forth in the same direction that the wave travels
• the sudden return of elastically deformed rock to its undeformed shape

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Tsunami

• A giant wave usually caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor.
• sudden movements of Earth's crust followed by a series of shocks
• seismic wave that moves rock particles at right angles to the direction of the wave
• Point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Secondary Wave

• A giant wave usually caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor.
• a type of seismic wave that forms when P waves and S waves reach Earth's surface
• seismic wave that moves rock particles at right angles to the direction of the wave
• sudden movements of Earth's crust followed by a series of shocks

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Primary Wave

• a type of seismic wave that forms when P waves and S waves reach Earth's surface
• sudden movements of Earth's crust followed by a series of shocks
• seismic wave that moves rock particles back and forth in the same direction that the wave travels
• The point beneath Earth's surface where rock breaks under stress and causes an earthquake

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Surface Wave

• a type of seismic wave that forms when P waves and S waves reach Earth's surface
• seismic wave that moves rock particles at right angles to the direction of the wave
• the bending, tilting, and breaking of Earth's crust; the change in the shape of rock in response to stress
• A break in the earth's crust

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2