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What can scientists find out about the earth with a seismometer?
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The perturbations in the bowels of the planet earth.
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What can scientist find out about earth with a seismometer?
Earths atmosphere
Can you put the word seismometer in a sentence?
A Geologist uses a seismometer to measure earth tremors and movements, and to help predict a possible earthquake.
Which instrument does not belong and why. Anemometer barometer thermometer seismometer?
The seismometer is the 'odd one out'. The other instruments measure factors to do with weather (wind speed, air pressure & temperature) - the seismometer measures movements in the Earth's crust.
Which instrument measures and records vibrations within the earth and on the earth surface?
This is known as a seismometer or seismograph.
What do scientists locate when they draw circles around three seismometer stations and find where the circles intersect?
The question, as posed, makes little sense. All that they would find is the points of intersection of the circles! The question says nothing about the sizes of the circles - whether they are the same or whether they represent some measure of seismic transmissivity of the earth near (under) them.
What is to the study of the earth as an X-ray machine is to the study of the human body?
The interior of the Earth can be studied by means of a seismometer.
When was Seismometer created?
Seismometer was created in 1880.
How do scientists find out information on the core?
Scientists find out information on the core by using special tools to dig out samples from deep inside the earth. Special instruments "look inside" parts of the earth we cannot see.
What will scientists do if they can't find a planet like earth?
This question is relevant in the situation that the world is going to an end. It may be by a natural disaster or a nuclear war. Then we have to find someother planet like earth to live. And if the scientists cant find a planet like earth, they might consider to research on how to survive on such chaotic conditions.
Why do scientists need to find out the age of the earth?
It helps to fill in pieces of the knowledge puzzle.
Did scientists find the element technetium on earth?
Yes, technetium exist on the Earth in uranium ores but only in infinitesimal amounts.
Why are 3 seismometers required to locate exactly where an eartquake occurred?
The seismometer records the P and S-wave arrival times. P-waves travel faster through the earth than S-waves and so they arrive at the seismometer station before the S-waves and are recorded by the seismometer first. The difference in arrival time between the two types of seismic wave can be used to calculate the distance of the earthquake's epicentre from the seismometer. This can then be plotted on a map, by drawing a circle with a radius equal to the distance to the epicentre around the seismometer station. This is then repeated for the other two seismometer stations and the point where the three circles intersect is the location of the earthquakes epicentre.
