Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes and Volcanoes
| QUIZ # 5 - Answer the following questions: | |
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24. What are seismic waves? |
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| 25. How many types of seismic waves do we know? | |
| 26. How many types of body waves? | |
| 26. Which of the two body waves will produce the greater damage? | |
| 27. What is a seismograph? | |
| 28. What is a seismogram? | |
| 29. Which wave arrives first to the seismograph? | |
| 30. Which wave arrives last to the seismograph? | |
| 31. What is the SP interval? | |
| 32. What does the SP interval tell us? | |
| 33. What would the amplitude of the S wave tell us? | |
| 34. How does the triangulation method work? |
Brooklyn College - Geology Department