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FJ
Locating
Continental
Earthquakes
Drift
Plates
Earth’s
Interior
Earthquake
Terms
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Minimum number of
seismographs needed to
locate the epicenter ?
3
Difference in arrival times of
the P- & S- waves increases
as the distance from the
epicenter ______
increases
The process we used to
locate the epicenter is called
triangulation
Number of earthquakes
predicted in a meaningful
time
0
If there is no difference
between the arrival times of
the P- & S- waves, you are
located at the _____
epicenter
Name of the super-continent
Pangaea
Continents that look like
they fit together
South America and Africa
James Hutton’s theory
Uniformitarianism
Why no one believed
Wegener
He had no idea
what moved the
continents
Hawaii is forming over a
_____ ______
Hot spot
Number of major plates
Around 10-12
Alternate name for plate
lithosphere
Type of rock that ocean
plates are made of
basalt
What the plates slide on
asthenosphere
What part(s) of the earth’s
interior make up the plates
Crust and upper part of the
upper mantle
The thickest layer of the
earth’s interior
mantle
Thinnest layer of the earth
crust
Which layer is liquid
Outer core
List the earth layers in order
Crust, mantle, outer core,
& inner core
What element is the inner
core composed of
Iron
Damage done by an
earthquake is defined by
intensity
Instrument that measures
the magnitude of an
earthquake
seismograph
Movement along a fracture
fault
The difference in strength
between a 5 and 6 on the
Richter scale is _____
times
31
What are the 2 surface
waves
Love & rayleigh
Liquefaction,
List the
4
associated
dangers
fire
storms,
Earthquake dangers
to the actual earthquake
aftershocks, &
tsunamis