Probing planet Earth

12 questions

1. What do waves transfer?
2. Fill in the gap: Water waves are an example of ___ waves.
3. What's the missing word? Sound waves and ultrasound are examples of ___ waves.
4. Match the waves to their descriptions
5. What happens when a wave is refracted?
6. What type of waves cannot travel through liquids?
7. Where are tectonic plates found?
8. Which statement best describes where earthquakes occur?
9. Which of the statements about S waves are correct?
10. Fill in the gap: P waves are ___ seismic waves that travel at different speeds through solids and liquids.
11. Starting with the outermost layer, sort the different layers of the Earth into the correct order.
12. What causes S waves and P waves to curve as they travel through the Earth?

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