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Chapter 5 Earthquakes Any change in the volume or shape of Earth's crust is called _____________________________________ In a normal fault, the part of the fault that lies below the other part is called the ________________________ The land between two normal faults may be uplifted to form a ___________________________________ A fold in rock that bends upward into an arch is called a(n) _____________________________________ What happens when friction between the opposite sides of a fault is high? _____________________________________________________________________________________ The point beneath Earth's surface where rock breaks under stress and triggers an earthquake is called the ________________ The type of seismic waves that arrive at the surface first and move by compressing and expanding the ground like an accordion are called ___________________________________________________________________ Compared to P waves and S waves, surface waves move _____________________________________ Which scale would most likely be used to tell how much earthquake damage was done to people, homes, and Buildings __________________________________________________________________ The rating system that estimates the total energy released by an earthquake is called the _________________________________________________________________________________________ If the Coast Guard warns of a giant wave of water approaching the shore as a result of a major earthquake, they are warning of ____________________________________________________________________________ The best way to protect yourself in an earthquake is to _________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ A device that uses wire stretched across a fault to measure horizontal movement of the ground is called a ______________________________________________________________________ What monitors a fault by bouncing radio waves off the ground? __________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ The risk of earthquakes is high along the Pacific coast of the United States because __________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Geologists cannot yet predict earthquakes because _____________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________