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2. Locating an Earthquake
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3. When the earth ruptures and suddenly releases energy
Seismic Movement 100
When the earth ruptures and suddenly releases energy
What is an earthquake?

4. Waves generated by an earthquake.
Seismic Movement 200
Waves generated by an earthquake.
What are seismic waves?

5. What is a primary or p -wave?
Seismic Movement 300
First seismic wave to reach a seismograph station.
What is a primary or p -wave?

6. What are secondary or s - waves?
Seismic Movement 400
Seismic body waves that move side to side.
What are secondary or s - waves?

7. Seismic Movement 500 What are surface waves?
Waves that travels on or near the surface of the earth. These waves can cause extensive damage to buildings.
What are surface waves?

8. Locating an Earthquake 100
Location where an earthquake occurs and energy is released.
What is the focus?

9. Locating an Earthquake 200
The point on the surface of the earth directly above the focus of an earthquake.
What is the epicenter?

10. Locating an Earthquake 300
Scientists use data recorded from ______________ to figure out where an earthquake occurred.
What are seismograph stations?

11. Locating an Earthquake 400
The term used to describe how three seismograph stations are used to determine an epicenter .
What is triangulation?

12. Locating an Earthquake 500
The reason three seismograph stations are used to triangulate an earthquake.
What is accuracy? Three locations are needed to find ONE intersecting point. (circle lab)

13. What is a plate boundary?
Down Under! 100
The place where plates meet.
What is a plate boundary?

14. What is a continental plate?
Down Under! 200
A warmer less dense plate.
What is a continental plate?

15. What is an oceanic plate?
Down Under! 300
This dense plate sinks and slides under the continental plate.
What is an oceanic plate?

16. What is the asthenosphere?
Down Under 400
Plates float on a flowing, taffy-like, solid upper mantle called _________.
What is the asthenosphere?

17. What is when an oceanic plate moves under another plate ?
Down Under! 500
A trench or deep valley is formed.
What is when an oceanic plate moves under another plate ?

18. When heat moves through liquid or gas.
Convection Within 100
When heat moves through liquid or gas.
What is convection?

19. Convection Within 200
The core of the earth heats this substance causing a convection cell to occur.
What is magma?

20. DAILY DOUBLE - Convection Within 300
The layer in the earth where a convection cell is located.
What is the mantle?

21. What is the crust OR rigid mantle OR Lithosphere?
Convection Within 400
Magma begins to cool as it rises and comes in contact with this layer of the earth.
What is the crust OR rigid mantle OR Lithosphere?

22. The liquid outer core of the earth is made from this element.
Convection Within 500
The liquid outer core of the earth is made from this element.
What is iron?

23. Faults and Boundaries 100 What is a fault?
A fracture in rock, along which rock on opposite sides of the fracture move.
What is a fault?

24. What is a plate boundary?
Faults and Boundaries 200
Place where broken pieces of the lithosphere meet.
What is a plate boundary?

25. What is plate tectonics?
Faults and Boundaries 300
A theory that plates float on the asthenosphere and that interactions among the plates are related to earthquakes and volcanic activity.
What is plate tectonics?

26. Faults only exist along plate boundaries.
Faults and Boundaries 400
Faults only exist along plate boundaries.
(true or false)
What is FALSE?

27. What is a mid-ocean ridge?
Faults and Boundaries 500
A mountain like landform that develops when plates separate and new ocean lithosphere is formed.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?

28. FINAL JEOPARDY! Who is Alfred Wegener?
The German scientists that proposed the theory of continental drift (Pangaea).
Who is Alfred Wegener?