Science Chapter 8 Vocab

the study of earth quakes

• Seismogram

• Elastic Rebound

• Seismology

• S waves

The bending, tilting and breaking of the Earths crust

• Deformation

• Seismology

• Seismography

• Seismic Waves

the sudden return of elastically deformed rock to its undeformed shape

• Siesmology

• Elastic Rebound

• Deformation

• P waves

waves of energy that travel through the earth and away from an earthquake in all directions

• Deformation

• Elastic Rebound

• Seismology

• Seismic Waves

seismic waves that cause particles of rock to move in a back-and-forth direction

• P waves

• S waves

• Seismic waves

• Siesmology

seismic waves that cause particles of rock to move in a side-to-side direction

• Seismic Waves

• P waves

• S waves

• Seismogram

an instrument that records vibrations in the ground and determines the location and strength of an earthquake

• Seismic Waves

• Seismology

• Seismogram

• Siesmolgraphy

a tracing of earthquake motion that is created by a seismograph

• Seismogram

• Seimography

• Seismology

• Elastic Rebound

the point on earths surface directly above an earthquake starting point or focus

• Gap Hypothosis

• focus

• epicenter

• Seismic Gap

the point along a fault ay which the first motion of an earthquake occurs

• Seismic Gap

• epicenter

• Gap Hypothesis

• focus