EarthQuakes

Question 1

S Waves

Answer 1

A body wave that is considered secondary waves because they come second in the earthquake. They can only travel through solids 3.5 km per second.

Question 2

Love Waves

Answer 2

A surface wave that is perpendicular to the wave’s directions, they move through solids.

Question 3

Rayleigh Waves

Answer 3

A surface wave that travels in solid ground causing the ground to rumble and lots of damage. They move in rolling motion (Counterclockwise), they also cause a lot of damage.

Question 4

EarthQuake

Answer 4

A shaking of the Earth caused by the movement of a tectonic plate.

Question 5

Shadow Zone

Answer 5

Parallel areas of the side of the earth where earthquake waves seem to vanish

Question 6

Body Waves

Answer 6

Waves that come from the center of the earth

Question 7

Surface waves

Answer 7

Waves that move from the surface

Question 8

S Wave Ideas

Answer 8

• Body Wave
• Particles move Perpendicular to the wave
• only moves through solids
• Slower than P Waves
• goes through the crust
• It would travel solids as p waves would but stops at liquids making the rest of the earth a shadow zone
• Secondary

Question 9

P Wave Ideas

Answer 9

• Body Wave
• First known wave from an earthquake to arrive at the seismograph
• pushes and pulls on the rock
• moves through both solids and liquid
• particles and waves both move in the same direction
• fastest kind of seismic wave
• once it enters into a more dense area, it slows down, and speeds back up in a less despise area
• Primary

Question 10

Love Wave Ideas

Answer 10

• Surface Wave
• Particles move in an up and down motion while the wave moves in a side to side motion
• moves through solids, not liquid
• Faster than Rayleigh waves

Question 11

Rayleigh Wave Ideas

Answer 11

• “Rolling” waves
• Surface waves
• Last a long time
• Travel in a rolling backward motion
• Cause a lot of damage
• Slowest wave

Question 12

Where do waves start

Answer 12

At the epicenter

Question 13

How waves travel

Answer 13

Travel in a spherical, outward motion in all directions

Question 14

When do body waves become surface waves

Answer 14

When they get to the crust

Question 15

Relationship Between waves by speed

Answer 15

Love waves are slower than p and S waves and faster than Rayleigh waves

P waves are the fastest of all waves

S waves are slower than p waves and faster than love and Rayleigh waves

Rayleigh waves are the slowest of all waves

Question 16

Waves in order of speed and arrival

Answer 16

1. P
2. S
3. Love
4. Rayleigh

Question 17

S and P waves arrives at different times…why?

Answer 17

They start at the same time, but since S waves are slower, they move farther apart

Question 18

Process of an Earthquake

Answer 18

Two plates will slide past, push up against, or move away from each other

When this occurs, the plates move violently

They create waves

Usually happens on a plate boundary

• –Can happen in the middle of plates in places called rifts
• –Happens because they can also move

Question 19

Relationship between waves and their particles

Answer 19

P waves’ particles goes in the same way as the wave is going

S waves’ particles goes perpendicular with the wave

Love waves’ particles move a different direction from the waves

Rayleigh Waves’ particles move in a rolling motion

Question 20

P Waves

Answer 20

A body wave that is considered primary waves because they come first in the earthquake. They travel through solids, molten rock, and fluids at 1-5 miles per second.