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1) Explain how scientists use seismic data to learn about geologic activity and happenings in the Earth's interior as shown in the sketches
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- Identify the type of wave: surface wave, S-wave, P-wave, tsunami a. Arrives first at seismic stations: b. Travels only on the crust and causes ground to move in two directions: . c. Travels in the crust and the mantle, but cannot travel through the outer liquid core: d. Travels through the crust, mantle, and core: e. Wave that results from the vertical motions of the seafloor:Explain how plate tectonics causes Earth tremors2) The Ring of Fire is located around the Ocean. 3) Why do so many volcanoes and earthquakes occur around the Ring of Fire? 4) What scale is used to measure the magnitude of an Earthquake? 5) Earthquakes that occur under the ocean can cause giant waves called 6) The Hawaiian Islands and other chains of islands located in the center of a tectonic plate are unique because they form over a
- The resource page discusses an increasing threat of nuisance flooding in North Carolina. To understand what nuisance flooding is, you have to have a basic understanding of tides. How are tides generated and propagated around ocean basins? Explain how the factors that control tides change over the course of one month and tie that back to the problems with nuisance flooding. Please be sure to reference your article (include information about it) in your answer and define any scientific terms your audience may not know.Which one of the following is TRUE regarding tsunamis? Group of answer choices Their wave heights decrease and wavelengths increase as they move into shallower water. They have very long wave length and small wave height in the open ocean. They are started by fault-induced, horizontal shifts in the seafloor They travel slower in the deep water of the open ocean than in the shallow coastal ocean.you are an igneous rock. describe what you experience as you move through the rock cyle
- a. Explain what is meant by plate tectonics. b. In your own words explain what happens at a subduction zone. c. At a subduction zone, what causes magma to rise?Write CHECK if the statement is correct and CROSS if it is incorrect.__________1. The theory of plate tectonics tells us that the lithosphere is divided intoseveral plates that are in motion.__________2. The lithosphere is synonymous to the earth’s crust.__________3. Asthenosphere is the soft, plastic layer where the lithosphere floats.__________4. The continents are the representation of the plates.__________5. In a transform plate boundary, the plates slide past each another__________6. In 1966, J. Tuzo Wilson proposed and describe how plate tectonics isconsidered as a cycle.__________7. Conduction in the mantle drives the motion of the plates__________8. Faults are known features of ductile deformation.__________9. Limbs are the sides of a fold.__________10. Oldest rocks are found at the center of a basin.Major earthquakes from 1900-1950, magnitude-human fatality table below: Date Location 1905 Kangra, India 1906 San Francisco, CA 1906 Valparaiso, Chile 1907 Central Asia 1908 1908 Messina, Italy 1915 Avezzano, Italy 1918 Mona Passage, PR 1920 Gansu, China 1920 1923 Yokohama, Japan 1925 Yunnan, China 1927 Tsinghai, China 1932 Gansu, China 1933 Japan 1933 Long Beach, CA 1934 Bihar-Napal, India 1934 1935 Taiwan (Formosa) 1935 1935 Quetta, Pakistan 1939 Chillian, Chile 1939 Erzincan, Turkey 1946 Honshu, Japan 1948 Fukui, Japan Courtesy: www.inspiration.com Deaths 19.000 3,000 20.000 12,000 83.000 29,980 116 200,000 143,000 5.000 200.000 70,000 2,990 115 10,700 3.276 50,000 28.000 30,000 1,330 5.390 Magnitude Country India United States 8.6 7.7 8.6 Chile 8.1 7.5 Italy 7.5 Italy 7.5 - United States 8.6 China 39 8.3 Japan 7.1 China 8.3 China 7.6 China 8.9 Japan 62 United States 8.4 India 74 Taiwan 7.5 Pakistan 8.3 Chile 8.0 Turkey 8.4 Japan 7.3 Japan 2. Does inspection of the data in the table…