5/25/2012

Bill Nye Video FACTS!!!


-Rikter scale is used to compare an earthquake to another
-Most earthquakes happen in the ring of fire, along the rim of the pacific ocean tecnotic plate
-The epicenter is where the earthquake starts
-When sciencetists look at the earthquakes' timining they can tell where it started
-Magnitude 2 is not twice as big as magnitude 1 it's 10 time bigger, magnitude 3 would be 100 times bigger than magnitude 1
-A object falls the direction the earthquake was
-Plate tectonics float on molten melted lava
-When plates move they make mountain or make faults

1 comment:

  1. the information is presented concisely but precisely for this reason I will remember it easily and they are also very interesting!

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