Questions:
1. What are the two kinds of body waves?
2. Which of the body wave has greater velocity?
3. What happens to the velocity of the P-waves as it travels through the outer core? Why?
4. What is the velocity of the S-waves as it travels at the outer core? Why?
5. Describe the behavior of P- waves and S-waves as it enters the interior of the Earth.
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1) P-waves. The first type of body wave is called the primary wave or pressure wave, and is commonly referred to as P-waves. ...
P-waves. The first type of body wave is called the primary wave or pressure wave, and is commonly referred to as P-waves. ...S-waves. The second type of body wave is called the secondary wave, shear wave or shaking wave, and is commonly referred to as S-waves. ...
2) P waves
3) When P-waves strike the outer core, however, they bend downward when traveling through the outer core and bend again when they leave.
4) shown to be zero but really they are evanescent
5) When an earthquake occurs the seismic waves (P and S waves) spread out in all directions through the Earth's interior. ... Seismic waves move more slowly through a liquid than a solid.
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