Matching Pairs Earthquake vocab Online version Match the vocab by Melissa Byrd 1 mechanical wave 2 focus 3 Faults 4 seismic waves 5 compressional wave 6 Seismograph 7 S waves (secondary waves) 8 seismology 9 surface waves 10 Epicenter 11 earthquake 12 P waves (Primary waves) The point beneath Earth's surface where rock breaks under stress and causes an earthquake travel through solids only; cause rock to move in a side-to-side or up & down motion, slower waves Breaks in Earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other. Point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus A wave that requires a medium through which to travel seismic waves that travel along the Earth's surface a wave in which matter moves back and forth in the direction the wave is moving vibrations that travel through Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake travel through liquids and solids, push and pull, faster, arrive first A device that records ground movements caused by seismic waves as they move through Earth The study of earthquakes a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.
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