Science Vocabulary: Earthquakes

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  1. 3. Earth scientists who study the genesis and the propagation of seismic waves in materials
  2. 4. are the fastest traveling seismic waves and can travel through solids, liquids, and gases
  3. 6. where two or more tectonic plates collide
  4. 11. an elastic wave in the earth produced by an earthquake or other means.
  5. 12. the point of origin of an earthquake.
  6. 14. a mass of snow, ice, and rocks falling rapidly down a mountainside.
  7. 15. an avalanche of rock
  8. 16. A seismic waves that can travel through solids but not through liquids or gases
  9. 17. an instrument that measures and records details of earthquakes
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  1. 1. where two or more tectonic plates slide past each other
  2. 2. where two or more tectonic plates divide
  3. 5. a long high sea wave caused by an earthquake
  4. 7. a numerical scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake
  5. 8. the point on the earth's surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake.
  6. 9. is a massive, irregularly shaped slab of solid rock which makes up the earth surface
  7. 10. the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle
  8. 12. an extended break in a body of rock
  9. 13. A seismic wave that travels across the surface of the Earth