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Seismic waves

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Waves produced by earthquake

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Mechanical layers of the earth

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Atmosphere
Hydrosphere
Crust
Mantle
Outer core
Inner core
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Compositional layers

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Crust
Mantle
Outer core
Inner core

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Atmosphere

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Blanket of gas surrounding earth to height of 145km. Mostly made up of nitrogen and oxygen

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Hydrosphere

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Water on earth’s surface

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Crust

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Included landforms, rocks and soils. Varies from thickness 5-70km. Thinness can be compared to as the skin of apple

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Mantle

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Partially molten rock. Temp from 500-2000 degrees celcuis. About 2900km thick

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Outer core

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Molten iron and nickel. Temp between 4000-6000 degrees celcius. About 2300km thick

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Inner core

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Mostly iron. Solid due to extreme pressure. Temp up to 7000 degrees celcius. About 1200km thick

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Continental drift

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Theory proposing continents float or drift on denser materials. Continents break apart and rejoin in process

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Pangae

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Name of the continent when all continents were together.

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Panthalasia

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Ocean that was surrounding pangae

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Continental crust

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Makes up continents. 30-70km thick

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Oceanic crust

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Under oceans

About 6 km thick

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Subduction

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Oceanic crust pushed under continental crust

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Subduction zone

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Zone where old oceanic crust pushed downwards towards mantle to form magma.

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Destructive plate boundaries

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Boundary between converging plates

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Constructive plate boundaries

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Boundary between divergent plates

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Ocean ridges

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Plate boundaries underwater. New oceanic crust being created at oceanic plate boundary

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Conservative plate boundaries

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Boundary between transform plates

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Converging plates

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Plates moving towards from each other

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Divergent plates

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Plates moving away from each other

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Transform plates

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Plates that slip and slide against each other

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Hotspots

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Where volcanoes form within plates.

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Folding

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Process of folding and bending of layers of rock

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Anticlines

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Folds that bend upwards

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Synclines

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Folds that bend downwards

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Fault

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When movement occurs along a crack on rock

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Rift valleys

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Formed when a block of crust have dropped down between faults

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Horst

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Block of crust pushed upwards from force created by rift valley

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Slip fault

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If movement along a fault is sideways

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4 causes of earthquakes

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Movements 700km under surface
Pushing against each other in subduction zones
Spreading apart at ocean ridges
Plates slipping and sliding each other

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Epicentre

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Point directly above where movement started under surface

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Focus

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Point which earthquake begins

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Triangulation

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Process using 3 different seismic stations to find epicentre

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Seismograph

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Used to record movement in the earth

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Richer scale

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Most used method of measuring strength of earthquakes. Is the measure of amount of energy released by earthquakes

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Microquake

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Earthquake measuring 2.0 or less on ritcher scale

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3 types of waves

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P-waves
S-waves
L-waves

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P-waves

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Fastest seismic wave
Travels in compression waves
Is a body wave

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S-waves

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Travel in transversal waves

Body wave

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L-wave

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Is a surface wave

Slowest seismic wave

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Body wave

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Seismic wave that travels through body of earth

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Surface wave

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Seismic wave that travels on surface.

Responsible for most of damage created by earthquakes

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Seismologists

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Scientists who measure earthquakes

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Tsunami

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Giant wave created by an earthquake underwater

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DART

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(Deep-ocean, Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis)
Early warning system for tsunamis
Sudden rises detected by buoys and sent to tsunami warning centres

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