FlashcardsEarthquakes and Plate Tectonics Flashcards
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This 21-card flashcard set covers earthquakes and plate tectonics for 8th Grade earth science. It includes questions and terms on fault types, plate boundaries, seismic waves, tsunami formation, and the difference between magnitude and intensity. Use it for chapter review, vocabulary reinforcement, or test preparation in a geology or earth science unit.
Terms in This Set
- What can cause earthquakes?
- An example involving the stress force known as tension.
- What boundary would subduction most likely be occurring?
- What is the major difference between a fault and a joint?
- Where are most major faults in the US found?
- What is the name of the longest strike-slip fault in southern California?
- What are secondary, smaller earthquakes that result from a major earthquake called?
- Seismic waves travel in 3 different ways
- What is an ocean wave that is caused by an earthquake called?
- magnitude
- strike-slip
- S Wave
- fault
- What are 3 types of boundaries?
- divergent boundaries
- convergent boundaries
- transform boundaries
- seismometer
- seismograph
- magnitude vs intensity
- Why is it inaccurate to call a tsunami a tidal wave?
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