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Stress & Earthquakes Vocabulary

AB
Faulta break in the earth's crust
Earthquakeshaking/trembling of earth's crust
Shearingpushes rock in 2 opposite directions
Tensionstretching rock so it becomes thinner in middle
Compressionstress on rock that squeezes until it folds/breaks
Normal Faultcaused by tension
Reverse Faultcaused by compression
Strike Slip Faultcaused by shearing
Anticlineforms the arch
Synclineforms the bowl
focuspoint beneath earth's surface
epicenterpoint on surface directly above focus of earth quake
P wavesmoves like an accordian
S wavemoves up and down and side to side
Surface waveslowest wave with greatest damage
seismographmeasures the speed of seismic waves


Mrs. Kobza
NE

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