Earth Science Vocab Chapter 6
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 stress | a force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume |
| tension | stress that stretches something |
| compression | stress that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks |
| shearing | stress that pushes masses of rock in opposite directions, in a sideways movement |
| normal fault | an inclined fault in which the hanging wall appears to have slipped downward relative to the footwall |
| hanging wall | the block of rock that forms the upper half of a fault |
| footwall | the block of rock that forms the lower half of a fault |
| reverse fault | a type of fault where the hanging wall slides upward; caused by compression in the crust |
| strike-slip fault | a type of fault where rocks on either side move past each other sideways with little up or down motion |
| anticline | an upward fold in rock formed by compression of Earth's crust |
| syncline | a downward fold in rock formed by compression in earth's crust |
| plateau | a large area of flat land elevated high above sea level |
| earthquake | the shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface |
| focus | the area beneath Earth's surface where rock that is under stress breaks, triggering an earthquake |
| epicenter | the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake |
| P wave | a type of seismic wave that compresses and expands the ground. |
| S wave | a type of seismic wave that moves the ground up and down and side to side |
| surface wave | a type of seismic wave that forms when P waves and S waves reach Earth's surface, which are slower than P and S waves, and make the ground roll like ocean waves |
| Mercalli scale | a scale that rates earthquakes according to their intensity and how much damage they cause at a particular place |
| magnitude | the measurement of an Earthquake's strength based on seismic waves and movement along faults |
| Richter Scale | a scale that rates an earthquake's magnitude based on the size of its seismic waves |
| seismograph | a measuring instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity and direction and duration of movements of the ground (as an earthquake) |
| moment magnitude scale | a scale that rates earthquakes by estimating the total energy released by an earthquake |
| seismogram | the record of an earthquake's seismic waves produced by a seismograph |
| friction | the force that opposes the motion of one surface as it moves across another surface |
| liquefaction | the process by which an earthquake's violent movement suddenly turns loose soil into liquid mud |
| aftershock | an earthquake that occurs after a larger earthquake in the same area |
| tsunami | a giant wave caused by an earthquake on the ocean floor |
| base-isolated building | a building mounted on bearings designed to absorb the energy of an earthquake |
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