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Natural Disasters
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Geology
Undergraduate 1
09/23/2009

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Which zone of the Earth's interior is liquid?
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Outercore
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Which part of the Earth is the most dense?
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Core
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The rigid tectonic plates move over the asthenosphere which is...
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Semi-Molten
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Plate tectonics is driven by energy from
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the Earth's internal heat
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What is a characteristic of convergent plate boundaries?
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Destruction of old lithosphere
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Tensional stress (stretching) results in
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Normal Faults
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Describe a Seismic P wave
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Compressional waves
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The second seismic waves to reach distant recording instruments are
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S waves
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The time interval between arrivals of the P and S waves can determine
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Earthquake distance
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Which is used to determine an earthquake's Richter magnitude?
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Seismic wave height
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When one crustal plate is sliding past another, the plate boundary is a
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Transform Boundary
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In elastic deformation a solid will
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Return to its original shape when the force is removed
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