Download WHERE DO EARTHQUAKES OCCUR? WHAT CAUSES

__________________________________
__________________________________
__________________________________
__________________________________
Reading Guide 8-1: What are Earthquakes? (pages 224-229)
1. Seismology is the study of ____________________________________.
2. Scientists who study earthquakes are called ___________________________.
WHERE DO EARTHQUAKES OCCUR?
3. Most earthquakes take place along _______________________________.
4. Why do earthquakes occur along faults?
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
WHAT CAUSES EARTHQUAKES?
5. Rock deformation that is like a stretched rubber band and does not lead to earthquakes
is called ____________________________.
6. The change in the shape of rocks in response to stress is called
_____________________________.
7. The sudden return of elastically deformed rock to its undeformed shape and causing an
earthquake is called _____________________________.
8.What causes rock deformation?
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
9. What will happen when more pressure is applied to a rock than it can withstand?
_______________________________________________________________
10. During elastic rebound, energy is released that travels as seismic waves. What
do the seismic waves cause?
_______________________________________________________________
FAULTS AT TECTONIC PLATE BOUNDARIES
11. Places where a large number of faults are located are called
____________________________________.
12. A ____________________________ is where two plates slip past each other.
13. A ____________________________ is where two plates push together.
14. A ____________________________ is where two plates pull away from each other.
HOW DO EARTHQUAKE WAVES TRAVEL?
15. Seismic waves that travel through Earth’s interior are _________________________.
16. Seismic waves that travel along Earth’s surface are ___________________________.
17. What is the name of the body wave that arrives second? _______________________.
18. Which seismic wave is the fastest and arrives first? ___________________________.
19. Which waves travel through solids, liquids, and gasses? _______________________.
20. What is another name for a pressure wave or P wave? ________________________.
21. What is another name for a secondary wave? _______________________________.
22. A secondary wave is unable to pass through ________________________________.
23. Surface waves may also be referred to as L waves and are the slowest moving, which
makes them the most ________________________________.
24.
What does the speed of a seismic wave depend on? ______________________