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Body waves change in speed and direction as they pass through different layers of the Earth, due to variations in density and composition. They can refract, reflect, and diffract depending on the properties of the Earth's interior. This behavior of body waves helps seismologists to study the structure and composition of the Earth's interior.
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What is a seismic wave that travels through the earths interior?
body waves
Which seismic body wave can penetrate the Earth's core?
P waves are seismic body waves that can penetrate the Earth's core. They are the fastest seismic waves and can travel through both solid and liquid materials, allowing them to pass through the Earth's core.
What are the two categories of seismic waves?
The two main categories of seismic waves are body waves and surface waves. Body waves can travel through the earth's inner layers, but surface waves can only move along the surface of the Earth.
What Earthquakes produce that travel though Earth?
Seismic waves are produced by earthquakes and travel through the Earth. These waves can be divided into two main types: body waves (P-waves and S-waves) that travel through the interior of the Earth, and surface waves that travel along the Earth's surface.
What is a body wave that does not penetrate the earth's core?
A body wave that does not penetrate the Earth's core is a compressional wave or P-wave. P-waves travel through the Earth by compressing and expanding the material they pass through, but they do not travel through the outer core because the outer core is liquid.
What are the waves that travel through the inside of earth?
Body Waves
The seismic waves that travel through earth interior are waves?
body waves
What is a seismic wave that travels through the earths interior?
body waves
Does a surface wave go through the body of the earth or along the surface?
Surface waves (as the name suggests) travel along Earth's surface. Seismic waves that travel through earth's interior are known instead as body waves.
Which wave is a body wave?
A body wave is a seismic wave that moves through the interior of the earth, as opposed to surface waves that travel near the earth's surface. P and S waves are body waves. Each type of wave shakes the ground in different ways.
What are two ways that P waves are different from S waves?
Body waves travel through the inside of earth's surface.Surface waves travel through the top part of earth's crust
Which seismic body wave can penetrate the Earth's core?
P waves are seismic body waves that can penetrate the Earth's core. They are the fastest seismic waves and can travel through both solid and liquid materials, allowing them to pass through the Earth's core.
What are the two categories of seismic waves?
The two main categories of seismic waves are body waves and surface waves. Body waves can travel through the earth's inner layers, but surface waves can only move along the surface of the Earth.
What Earthquakes produce that travel though Earth?
Seismic waves are produced by earthquakes and travel through the Earth. These waves can be divided into two main types: body waves (P-waves and S-waves) that travel through the interior of the Earth, and surface waves that travel along the Earth's surface.
What earthquakes travel through the earth's mantle?
Primary waves and secondary waves (body waves). Love waves and rayleigh waves (surface waves) do not travel through the earth's mantle. Though secondary waves do not go through liquids, the asthenosphere is only a semi-liquid, so secondary waves can still go through it.
What are two categories of seismic waves?
The two main categories of seismic waves are body waves and surface waves. Body waves can travel through the earth's inner layers, but surface waves can only move along the surface of the Earth.
What are the two categories of seismic?
The two main categories of seismic waves are body waves and surface waves. Body waves can travel through the earth's inner layers, but surface waves can only move along the surface of the Earth.
