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LESSON:
YOU DON'T NEED A SEISMOGRAPH TO STUDY EARTHQUAKES
Earthquake Vocabulary Terms Convergent
boundary - a region where two plates collide Divergent
boundary - a region where two plates move apart Epicenter - point on the surface directly above the focus of an earthquake Fault
- a fracture in the earth's crust Focus - underground location from which an earthquake originates Lithosphere
- the outer part of the earth's crust Plate
tectonics - the theory which proposes that Earth's lithosphere consists
of individual plates that interact in various ways and thereby produce
earthquakes Subduction
- the process of thrusting oceanic lithosphere into the mantle along a
convergent zone Transform
boundary - the region where two plates slide past each other Tsunami - a tidal wave caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption |