earthquakes vocab

the study of earthquakes

• seismic gap

• seismograph

• seismology

• siesmology

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

earthquake: a movement and _______ of the ground

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

the bending, tilting, and breaking of earth's crust

• earthquake

• deformation

• plastic deformation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

a place where earth's rocky crust is broken

• fault

• earthquake zone

• surface wave

• magnitude

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

when a rock stays folded and bent like clay after the pressure is removed

• plastic deformation

• elastic deformation

• deformation

when a rock changes shape under pressure but goes

back to its original size and shape

• elastic rebound

• seismic wave

• s wave

• elastic deformation

when a rock breaks but snaps back to it's original shape.

this gives of energy and causes the ground to shake

• earthquake zone

• aftershocks

• elastic rebound

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

a wave of energy that travels through the earth, away

from an earthquake in all directions

• p wave

• s wave

• seismic wave

• surface wave

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

the point on earth's surface directly above

an earthquakes starting focus

• magnitude

• intensity

• focus

• epicenter

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

weaker earthquakes that can happen after a large earthquake

• earthquake

• earthquake hazard

• after shocks

• magnitude