WAVES

1. 300 100 200 500 400 300 400 200 500 500 300 200 100 400 300 100 300 200 100 300 400 400 200 500 100 400 500 200 100 500 GENERAL INFORMATION EARTH’S INTERIOR FAULTS HAZARDS LOCATING EARTHQUAKES WAVES

2. THIS IS THE TERM FOR ROCKS “SPRINGING BACK” AFTER BEING STRESSED AND BROKEN 100 POINTS

3. THIS IS THE NAME FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF EARTHQUAKE WAVES 200 POINTS

4. THIS IS THE NAME FOR THE DEVICE THAT MEASURES AND RECORDS THE SIZE OF EARTHQUAKE WAVES 300 POINTS

5. THESE ARE SEAMS IN THE EARTH’S CRUST THAT PRODUCE THE MOVEMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH EARTHQUAKES 400 POINTS

6. THESE ARE TWO AREAS ON THE EARTH THAT ARE CLOSELY RELATED TO EARTHQUAKE LOCATIONS 500 POINTS

7. THIS IS THE SLOWEST, BUT MOST COMPLEX AND DAMAGING, TYPE OF EARTHQUAKE WAVE 100 POINTS

8. THIS TYPE OF EARTHQUAKE WAVE CAN ONLY TRAVEL THROUGH SOLIDS 200 POINTS

9. THIS EARTHQUAKE TRAVELS THE FASTEST AND IS THE FIRST TO ARRIVE AT SEISMOGRAPHS, WHICH IS WHY THIS NAME FOR IT STARTS WITH A “P” 300 POINTS

10. THIS KIND OF WAVE EXHIBITS A SIDE-TO-SIDE OR “SHAKE” MOTION 400 POINTS

11. WHEN THIS TYPE OF WAVE PASSES BY, ALL PARTICLES TRAVEL IN A CIRCULAR MOTION 500 POINTS

12. THE ABILITY OF A SEISMOGRAPH STATION TO LOCATE THE DISTANCE TO AN EARTHQUAKE DEPENDS ON THE DELAY BETWEEN THESE TWO WAVE TYPES 100 POINTS

13. THIS IS THE NAME FOR THE LOCATION ON THE EARTH’S SURFACE DIRECTLY ABOVE WHERE THE EARTQUAKE HAS OCCURRED 200 POINTS

14. A SINGLE SEISMOGRAPH STATION CAN DETERMINE THE DISTANCE TO AN EARTQUAKE, BUT CANNOT DETERMINE THIS VALUE 300 POINTS

15. THE EXACT LOCATION WHERE THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED IS CALLED THIS 400 POINTS

16. THIS IS THE MINIMUM NUMBER OF SEISMOGRAPH STATIONS NEEDED TO DETERMINE THE LOCATION OF AN EARTHQUAKE 500 POINTS

17. THIS IS THE EARTHQUAKE RATING SCALE THAT RATES EARTHQUAKES BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF DAMAGE CAUSED 100 POINTS

18. THIS IS THE NAME FOR WHEN EARTHQUAKE WAVES CAUSE WATER IN THE GROUND TO SATURATE THE GROUND AND MAKE IT VERY SOFT 200 POINTS

19. THIS IS THE NAME OF THE LOCATION IN SAN FRANCISCO THAT SUFFERED THE MOST DAMAGE IN THE 1989 QUAKE 300 POINTS

20. THIS IS HOW MANY MORE TIMES POWERFUL A MAGNITUDE 7.0 QUAKE IS THAN A 6.0 QUAKE 400 POINTS

21. THIS IS THE NAME OF THE MAJOR FAULT THAT RUNS THROUGH SAN FRANCISCO AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 500 POINTS

22. THE TYPE OF FORCE THAT CAUSES STRIKE-SLIP (OR TRANSFORM) FAULTS TO OCCUR IS CALLED THIS 100 POINTS

23. THE SIDE OF A FAULT THAT IS MORE UNDERNEATH OF THE FAULT LINE IS CALLED THIS 200 POINTS

24. WHEN THE HANGING WALL SLIDES DOWN THE OTHER WALL, IT RESULTS IN THIS KIND OF FAULT 300 POINTS

25. THESE ARE FAULT-BLOCK MOUNTAINS IN WYOMING THAT ARE CAUSED BY NORMAL FAULTS 400 POINTS

26. THIS IS THE TYPE OF FORCE THAT CAUSES EARTH’S LAYERS TO BEND INTO SYNCLINES AND ANTICLINES 500 POINTS

27. COMPOSITIONALLY, THE EARTH’S ENTIRE CORE IS MADE OF THIS MATERIAL 100 POINTS

28. THE CONTINENTAL CRUST IS MADE OF THIS TYPE OF ROCK; THE OCEANIC CRUST IS MADE OF THIS TYPE OF ROCK 200 POINTS

29. THE SOLID OUTER SHELL OF THE EARTH IS CALLED THIS 300 POINTS

30. ALTHOUGH THE CORE IS MADE OF ALL ONE TYPE OF MATERIAL, THE INNER CORE AND OUTER CORE ARE DIFFERENT IN THIS WAY 400 POINTS

31. THE SOFT, INNER LAYER OF THE EARTH THAN ENABLES EARTH’S OUTER LAYER TO SLOWLY MOVE AROUND IS CALLED THIS 500 POINTS