ESS Spring Final Review 2019 Fill in the Blank

A type of seismic wave that moves the ground up and down or side to side

Surface waves that shear the ground in a horizontal direction. Can only travel through solids. Third to arrive.

Surface waves that travel in a backward-rotating, elliptical motion, causing both vertical and horizontal ground movement. Can travel through solid, liquid, and gas. Fourth to arrive. Dangerous.

A tectonic plate boundary where two plates collide, come together, or crash into each other.

A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.

A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions

Earth's outermost layer.

The layer of hot, solid material between Earth's crust and core.

A layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of Earth

A dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of Earth

the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere, where weather occurs

2nd layer of atmosphere; extends from 10 to 30 miles up; location of ozone layer; absorbs 95% of Ultraviolet radiation; temperature increases with altitude increase.

The layer of Earth's atmosphere immediately above the stratosphere

The outer layer of the thermosphere, extending outward into space.

the region of the atmosphere above the mesosphere and below the height at which the atmosphere ceases to have the properties of a continuous medium. The thermosphere is characterized throughout by an increase in temperature with height.