When many earthquakes are studied, there is another common pattern that emerges: a “Shadow Zone”. This is an area, for any earthquake, on the Earth where direct S-waves don’t arrive at all and P waves are refracted. What do you think causes these P waves to be refracted? *

An electron moved from a lower energy level to a higher energy level. what most likely happened during the transition? a random amount of light was released. a fixed amount of energy was absorbed. a fixed amount of energy was released. a random amount of light was absorbed.