Relier Pairs Earthquake TermsVersion en ligne Match the earthquake term to it's definition par Jennifer Russell 1 Constructive force 2 Destructive force 3 Focus 4 Earthquake 5 Pangea 6 Seismic waves 7 Organism destruction 8 Richter Scale 9 Continental Drift 10 Deposition 11 Ring of fire 12 Seismograph 13 Magma 14 Fault 15 Lava 16 Volcano 17 Plates 18 Tsunami 19 Epicenter a process that constructs, or builds up an existing landform, or creates a new one. Examples include deposition, volcanoes, faults the point underground where the energy buildup is released a theory that explained how continents shift, or change position on Earth's surface the instrument used to measure the intensity of an earthquake a natural occurrence that breaks down the surrounding area. Examples include weathering, erosion, earthquakes, volcanoes, organisms the melted, molten rock beneath Earth's surface a mountain made of lava, ash, or other materials from eruptions a large tidal wave caused by an earthquake that happens under water the scale used to determine the strength of an earthquake (0-10.0 scale with 6.0+ being pretty powerful) organisms can be destructive as they eat away and/or destroy or change the landscape of the world the point on Earth's surface that is directly above the focus of the earthquake the molten rock when it reaches Earth's surface the dropping of sediment, creates a new landform (deltas and sand dunes) the release of energy when plates shift A former "supercontinent" on the Earth that included all the present continents, which broke up and drifted apart how the movement of energy in an earthquake is measured a crack in the Earth's surface where two plates meet the pieces of Earth's crust that fit together and form the top layer of the Earth area around the Pacific Ocean where there is a large number of earthquakes and some of the Earth's most active volcanoes occur
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