Ch. 9 Lesson 1 Quick Vocabulary

What does the term 'convergent' mean?

• Tending to move away from one point

• Tending to move toward one point or approaching each other

• Remaining stationary

• Moving in circles

What causes vibrations in the ground that result from movement along breaks in Earth's lithosphere?

• Volcano

• Earthquake

• Tsunami

• Landslide

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What is the location directly above the focus of an earthquake called?

• Epicenter

• Fault

• Mantle

• Crust

What is a break in Earth's lithosphere where one block of rock moves toward, away from, or past another called?

• Fault

• Epicenter

• Focus

• Plate boundary

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Where do rocks first move along a fault and seismic waves originate?

• Epicenter

• Focus

• Mantle

• Crust

What is Earth's interior below the crust and above the core called?

• Mantle

• Crust

• Core

• Lithosphere

Where do Earth's lithospheric plates move and interact with each other?

• Plate boundary

• Fault

• Epicenter

• Focus

What is the fastest-moving type of seismic wave that causes particles in the ground to move in a push-pull motion?

• Secondary wave

• Surface wave

• Primary wave

• Seismic wave

What type of wave causes particles in the ground to move side to side and up and down at right angles relative to the direction the wave travels?

• Primary wave

• Secondary wave

• Surface wave

• Seismic wave

What travels as vibrations on and in Earth?

• Seismic wave

• Surface wave

• Primary wave

• Secondary wave

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