Savvy Scientist - Earth’s Structure, Seismic Waves, and Plate Tectonics

____________________________ travel faster than other seismic waves and hence are the first signal from an earthquake to arrive at any affected location or at a seismograph. They move back and forth in a straight line.

• Primary Waves

• Secondary Waves

• Seismic Waves

• Tectonic Plates

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

___________________________ are seismic body wave that cannot pass through liquid and shakes the ground moving it up and down perpendicular to the direction the wave is moving.

• Primary Waves

• Secondary Waves

• Seismic Waves

• Lithosphere

_______________ is the point on the Earth’s surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake.

• Inner Core

• Asthenosphere

• Seismograph

• Epicenter

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

An instrument used to detect and measure earthquakes and other ground vibration is a ___________________________.

• Seismic Waves

• Seismograph

• Tectonic Plate

• Epicenter

The outer most layer of Earth’s surface is known as the _____________.

• Crust

• Outer Core

• Mantle

• Inner Core

The third layer of the Earth’s surface from the surface is the __________________________.

• Outer Core

• Inner Core

• Crust

• Mantle

The second most outer layer of Earth’s surface is the ___________________.

• Outer Core

• Inner Core

• Crust

• Mantle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The center layer of the Earth is known as the ______________________________

• Outer Core

• Inner Core

• Mantle

• Crust

The part of Earth that is composed of mostly rocks including the crust and the outer mantle is known as the ____________________.

• Asthenosphere

• Inner Core

• Lithosphere

• Crust

________________________ come from earthquakes or Earth’s vibration.

• Primary Waves

• Secondary Waves

• Seismic Waves

• Epicenter