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Epicenter |
Center of an earthquake |
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Focus |
Point under earth's surface where rocks breaks that causes an earthquake |
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Weathering |
The chemical and physical process of breaking down rock in sediment |
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Shearing |
Transfer, pushing rock in two opposite directions |
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Tension |
Divergent, pull on crust so it become thinner in the middle |
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Fault |
Break in the crust of the shape or volume of the earth's crust |
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Magnitude |
Measures of the amount of energy realesd during an earthquake |
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Explain the theory of continental drift |
Theory that all the continents had once been joined together in a single landmass and have since drifted apart |
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