Observe the diagram and answer the questions:

1. What is the speed of the seismic waves at a depth of 2 000 km? And at 3 000 km?

2. What may have occurred for this change in speed to have been recorded?

This graph represents the speed of seismic waves on an imaginary planet. Every big change
in speed means that waves are at a discontinuity, crossing a limit between different layers.

3. How many layers are there on this planet?

4. How many discontinuities are observed?

5. How would you describe this planet’s layers with regards to their physical states?

REMBEMBER:
SPEED INCREASES IF
 RIGIDITY INCREASES OR DENSITY DICREASES
SPEED DICREASE IF
RIGIDITY DICREASE OR DENSITY INCREASES (
Observe this diagram and answer the questions:

6. What types of waves are being produced?

7. Through what means are these waves propagated?

8. How do these particles move?

9. Are they deep or superficial?

10. Are they the fastest waves?

Look at this information about different earthquakes.

earthquake year magnitude victims

Chile 1960 9.5 2331

Alaska 1964 9.2 131

China 1976 7.5 255000

Sakhalin (Russia) 1995 7.5 2000

Indonesia 2004 9.2 283000

Haiti 2010 7.0 316000

Japan 2011 9.0 15856

11. Create a bar chart, representing the number of victims against the magnitude of the
earthquake.

12. Can we say that earthquakes with larger magnitudes claim more victims? Explain
your answer.

Look at the following data on the speed of the seismic waves from a planet called
Altair with a 4 000 km radius.

depth (km) speed (km/s)

P waves S waves

100 6 2

500 7 3

520 8 4

2 000 10 6

2 020 7 3

3 000 7 3
 4 000 9 0

13. On a graph, represent the speed of P and S waves according to depth.

14. Indicate how many discontinuities the planet has and their depths.

Draw a diagram that represents how many layers the planet has and the physical d
state of each one.