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What is the term that describes water-soaked soil when it turns into thick soupy liquid during an earthquake?
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What can happen to wet soil during the shaking from an earthquake?
An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves.
Which of these describes the earth outer core?
The answer is hot liquid
The process in which the violent shaking of an earthquake that turns soft soil into liquid mud is what?
Liquefaction
What happens during liquefaction?
Liquefaction is when a solid melts into a liquid or a gas becomes liquid. During earthquakes, soil can turn into a liquid.
What process in which the violent shaking of an earthquake turns soft soil into liquid mud is called?
Soil liquefaction
What is the process where a soft soil turns into liquid mud during an earthquake called?
Liquefaction is the process by which mud behaves like a liquid during an earthquake.
Do waves occur only in water?
Waves can occur in any liquid. Waves can also be propagated through rock, during an earthquake, and the same mathematics that describes water waves also describes waves in electromagnetic energy such as light or radio.
What is it called when mud or fill moves like a liquid during an earthquake?
land slide
5 What happens to soil during and after an earthquake?
The soil becomes a liquid or a solid depending on the magnitude of the earthquake. Also the soil becomes decomposed by octopus because octopus eat chicken.
What can happen to wet soil during the shaking from an earthquake?
An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves.
Can soil act like liquid in an earthquake?
quanflication
What description describes a liquid?
What is a soild
What term describes a liquid liquid colloid?
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What description best describes a liquid?
What is a soild
What is the violent shaking of an earthquake that turns soft soil into liquid mud?
liquefaction
Which term describes a liquid changing into a solid?
Freezing
What science term describes beef stew?
Liquid
