Earthquake – vibration of rocks when the energy stored in them is released

Focus – where earthquake starts

- Immediate area where vibration takes place

Epicenter – directly above the focus

Fault - fracture along which the blocks of crust on either side have moved relative to one another
parallel to the fracture.

Fault plane - planar (flat) surface along which there is slip during an earthquake

Fault scrap -feature on the surface of the earth that looks like a step caused by slip on the fault.

Convection current – movement of materials in earth’s interior, which transfers energy from one
another
Tensional movement – occurs when one convection current moves clockwise, while another current
moves counterclockwise in adjacent but separate areas, tending to pull the
lithosphere above it in opposite directions
Plate Tectonics - that considers the earth's crust and upper mantle to be composed of several large, thin,
relatively rigid plates that move relative to one another.
-tectonic plates is that they are parts of the lithosphere that break up into huge rock
slabs, or crustal plates .
Sea-floor spreading - happens at the mid-oceanic ridge where a divergent boundary is causing two
plates to move away from one another resulting in spreading of the sea floor. As
the plates move apart, new material wells up and cools onto the edge of the plates.