Chapter 6A-B

Question 1

An instrument that measures earthquake waves 

Answer 1

Seismometer 

Question 2

Seismometer to Texan, earthquake, and sends a signal to a specific location notifying of an impending earthquake 

Answer 2

Early warning system

Question 3

Put into computers to start a network of early warning system

Answer 3

accelerometer

Question 4

Any kind of shaking measure by seismic instruments

Answer 4

Earthquakes

Question 5

Faults slipping, volcanoes And landslides

Answer 5

Natural causes

Question 6

Explosions mind caves, and aircraft crashes

Answer 6

Man-made causes

Question 7

To push or pull on something

Answer 7

Force

Question 8

A force exerted inside a material

Answer 8

Stress

Question 9

What are the three kinds of stresses?

Answer 9

One tension pulling, two pushing compression, three tearing sheer

Question 10

Hotter or less dense rock rises

Answer 10

Buoyant force

Question 11

Cooler denser rock sinks

Answer 11

Gravity

Question 12

Plates move apart

Answer 12

Divergent boundaries

Question 13

Plates moved together

Answer 13

Convergent boundaries

Question 14

Plate slide pass one and another in opposite direction

Answer 14

 Transformed boundaries

Question 15

Any kind of a solid shape due to stress

Answer 15

Strain

Question 16

Amount of strain a substance can take without breaking

Answer 16

Ductility

Question 17

Easily fractured

Answer 17

Brittle

Question 18

A joint or crack in a rock where the rock on both sides of the crack has been relative to each other

Answer 18

Fault

Question 19

 Stretchiness

Answer 19

 Elastic

Question 20

Flat surface along which there is a slip during an earthquake

Answer 20

Fault plane

Question 21

Angle of the face downward from the
Horizontal

Answer 21

Dip

Question 22

Can change along a fault

Answer 22

Strikes and dip

Question 23

Location certain or visible on the surface

Answer 23

Solid line

Question 24

Below ground and out of state estimate position

Answer 24

 Dashed line

Question 25

Move up and down

Answer 25

Dip slipped fault

Question 26

Upper block drops and lower block rises

Answer 26

Normal fault

Question 27

Upper block rises and lower block drops

Answer 27

Reverse fault

Question 28

Reverse fault with a dip less than 45°

Answer 28

 Thrust fault

Question 29

Moves horizontally

Answer 29

Strike slip fault

Question 30

 Famous strike slip fault

Answer 30

San Andreas Fault

Question 31

You can feel an earthquake if it is less than what

Answer 31

45 miles below the earths surface

Question 32

Three kinds of forces

Answer 32

Compression, tension, shear

Question 33

Three types of boundaries

Answer 33

Convergent, divergent, and transform

Question 34

Three types of faults

Answer 34

Reverse normal and strike slip

Question 35

Compression =

Answer 35

Convergent; reverse

Question 36

Transform=

Answer 36

Divergent; normal

Question 37

Shear=

Answer 37

Transform; stress slip

Question 38

Smaller earthquakes fell after the initial one as crust adjusted to its new position

Answer 38

Aftershocks

Question 39

Immense amount amounts of elastic energy is released

Answer 39

Rubber band principal

Question 40

Instrument used to detect quakes

Answer 40

Seismometer

Question 41

Seismometer and recording system

Answer 41

Seismograph

Question 42

The recording of a seismograph

Answer 42

Seismogram

Question 43

The height of a zigzag and graph of earth waves shows strength of a wave

Answer 43

Amplitude