Vocabulary game
by Rachel Schneider
Which is a force that acts on rock
to change its shape or volume
Stress
Tension
Shearing
define tension
A
B
C
Occurs where two plates come together
rocks on either side slip past each other
Occurs when two plates pull apart
which picture is an example of
compression
A
B
C
Define shearing
A
B
C
Rocks on either side of a fault slip past each other sideways
Stress that pushes a mass rocks in two opposite directions
A large area of flat land
A normal fault....
A
B
C
Cuts through rock at an angle
Breaks in earths crust where rocks have slipped past each other
Neither
The blocks move in a reverse
direction in a
Normal
fault
Plateau
reverse
fault
In a _______, the rocks slip past
each other sideways, with little
up and down motion
Strike-slip
fault
earthquake
Normal
fault
A plateau is..
A
B
C
a fancy sandwich
A large area of flat land elevated high above sea level
Bends in rock that form when compression shortens and thickens
Earth's crust
The shaking and trembling that
results from movement of rock
beneath Earth's surface is an
example of...
Earthquake
Seismic
waves
Magnitude
The______ is the area beneath
Earth's surface where rock that was
under stress begins to break or move
epicenter
Plate
Focus
The point directly above the
focus
epicenter
Crust
Seismograph
P waves...
seismic waves that compress and expand the ground
A
Vibrations from the core
B
C
shake the ground violently
the seismic waves that can
vibrate from side to side or up
and down
P Waves
S waves
Love
Waves
records and measures an
earthquakes seismic waves
Richter scale
Moment
magnitude scale
Seismograph
______ move more slowly than P
and S waves, but they can produce
severe ground movements.
Surface
Waves
P waves
Seismic
waves
Rates the amount of shaking
from an earthquake
Richter scale
Moment
Magnitude
scale
Modified
Mercalli scale
geologists assign to an
earthquake based on the
earthquakes size
Magnitude
Seismic
wave
folds
The richter scale rates the magnitude
of small earthquakes based on the size
of the earthquake's waves as recorded
by seismographs
True
false
The moment magnitude rates...
A
The seismic waves released by an earthquake
B
The total energy an earthquake released
C
The size of the earthquake
The pattern of lines that is the
record of an earthquake's seismic
waves produced by a seismograph
is called a seismogram
True
false
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9
Wrong!!
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3
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9
Correct!!
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