Seismic (?)

Question 1

an elastic wave genereated by an impulse such as an earthquake or an explosion.

Answer 1

Seismic waves

Question 2

Earth’s Scientist, specialized in geophysics, who study the genesis and the propagation of seismic waves in geological materials.

Answer 2

Seismologist

Question 3

Instruments used to record the motion of the ground during an earthquake

Answer 3

Seismograph

Question 4

Wave that shakes the ground back and forth in the same direction and the opposite direction as the wave moves.

Answer 4

P-waves

Question 5

Wave that shakes the ground back and forth perpendicular to the direction the wave is moving

Answer 5

S-waves

Question 6

Surface wave having a horizontal motion that is transverse (or perpendiculas) to the direction the wave is travelling.

Answer 6

Love waves

Question 7

Seismic surface wave causing the ground to shake in an elliptical motion, with no transverese, or perpendicular motion.

Answer 7

Rayleigh waves

Question 8

A method of ore reserve estimation

Answer 8

Triangular method

Question 9

is the location on the surface of the earth directly above where the earthquake starts.

Answer 9

Epicenter focus