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Earthquakes and Earths Interior PASSED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Richter scale - Correct Answer- A scale of 1 to 10 used to express the energy released by an earthquake fault - Correct Answer- crack in the earth's crust along which tectonic plates move seismic waves - Correct Answer-...

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Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers

Richter scale - Correct Answer- A scale of 1 to 10 used to express the energy released by an
earthquake


fault - Correct Answer- crack in the earth's crust along which tectonic plates move


seismic waves - Correct Answer- energy waves caused by an earthquake


tsunami - Correct Answer- a seismic sea wave caused by a earthquake in the ocean


epicenter - Correct Answer- point of the earth's surface directly above the true center (focus)
of an earthquake


seismograph - Correct Answer- an instrument that records the time and strengths of seismic
waves from an earthquake


magnitude - Correct Answer- strength of an earthquake


focus - Correct Answer- place where an earthquake begins inside the earth


Inner Core - Correct Answer- a dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of Earth


Outer Core - Correct Answer- a layer of molten iron and nickel that is a liquid that surrounds
the inner core of Earth, S-waves cannot travel through it.


Mantle - Correct Answer- The layer of hot, molten rock material between Earth's crust and
core.


Crust - Correct Answer- the outer layer of the Earth

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