susan barton gcms 7b science and. defining earthquakes shaking and trembling of the earth’s crust....
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Susan Barton
GCMS
7B Science
And
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Defining Earthquakes
• Shaking and trembling of the earth’s crust.
• The waves travel in all directions
• More than 1,000,000 occur a year or one every 30 seconds
• Faulting is the most common cause
• Earthquakes continue until all the energy is used up
• TSUNAMIS- earthquake on the ocean floor: causing waves to become greater than 20 meters high
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Seismic Waves
• FOCUS- underground point of origin
• EPICENTER- aboveground of origin; most violent shaking occurs at the epicenter
• The three main types of seismic waves are: P waves, S waves, and L waves
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P Waves
• Primary waves
• Arrive first at the epicenter
• Can travel through solids, liquids, and gases
• They are push-pull waves
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S Waves
• Secondary waves
• Can travel through solids, but NOT through liquids and gases
• Move in up-down motion
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L Waves
• Surface waves
• Slowest moving seismic waves
• Travel on top of Earth’s surface
• Cause most of damage to Earth, because they bend and twist the surface
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John Milne- 1893
• Seismograph-measures and detects seismic waves
• Seismogram- Paper record of waves
• Seismologist- scientist who study earthquakes
• Richter Scale- a scale that allows scientists to determine earthquake strength based on many readings
• 1-10 levels at which an earthquake is measured on amount of damage caused; Above a 6 is very destructive
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VOLCANOES
• Volcano- place on Earth’s surface that allows magma and other material to erupt
• Magma- found beneath the Earth’s surface, it is liquid rock
• Lava- magma that reaches the Earth’s surface
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Volcanic Fragments
• Volcanic Dust- less that 0.25 mm in diameter (flour)
• Volcanic Ash- more than 0.25 less than 5 mm (rice)
• Volcanic Bombs- few cm to several meters.
• Cinders- volcanic bombs the size of golf balls
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Types of Volcanoes
• Cinder Cones- made of mostly of cinders; formed from explosive eruptions
• Shield- Made of quiet lava flows
• Composite- made up of alternating layers of rock particles; explosive eruptions, then quite lava flows
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Volcanic Terminology
• Crater- funnel shaped pit, or depression at top of volcano
• Caldera- when a crater becomes too large, it collapses: also can form when the top of a volcano collapses or explodes
• Dormant- sleeping volcano
• Extinct- not known to have erupted in modern history
• Active- Erupts fairly regularly
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Ring of Fire
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Zones
• There are 3 zones:• Ring of Fire- Extends nearly all the way
around the edge of the Pacific Ocean• Mediterranean Sea- Italy, Greece,
Turkey• Iceland and Atlantic Ocean- Mid
Atlantic Ridge
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EXTRA! EXTRA!
• Mount St. Helens is a volcano is Washington State
• San Andreas Fault in California
• New Madrid Fault is where we live