Volcanoes
Magma that reaches the surface.
What is Lava?
The first wave to hit during an earthquake.
What are P (primary) Waves?
An odorless, colorless, and lightweight gas.
What is Natural Gas?
The movement of sediment rocks.
What is Erosion?
The three states of water
What are gas (steam), liquid (water), and solid (ice)?
A chain of volcanic islands.
What is a Hot Spot?
An instrument that measures and records details of earthquakes, such as force and duration.
What is a Seismograph?
A form of renewable energy that takes the sun rays and converts it into energy.
What is Solar Energy?
The three categories all rocks can be put into.
What are Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic?
When the sun heats up liquid water, this process occurs.
What is Evaporation?
The large-scale motion of seven large plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of the Earth's lithosphere that can cause a Volcanoes Eruption.
What are Tectonic Plates?
An elastic wave in the earth produced by an earthquake or other means.
What are Seismic Waves?
A power derived from the energy of falling or fast-running water.
What is Hydropower?
The two types that an igneous rock can be classified in.
What are Intrusive and Extrusive Rocks?
When moisture falls to the ground from clouds.
What is Precipitation?
When plates move away from each other.
What are Divergent Plates?
The scale used to measure an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
A fuel formed by natural processes, such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, containing energy originating in ancient photosynthesis.
What are Fossil Fuels?
When rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is Pressure?
When water vapor changes into water droplets.
What is Condensation?
A large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber/reservoir in a volcanic eruption.
What is a Caldera?
A planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movement.
What is a fault?
A nuclear reaction in which a heavy nucleus splits spontaneously or on impact with another particle, with the release of energy.
What is Nuclear Fission?
The two types that an metamorphic rock can be classified in.
What are foliated and nonfoliated?
A huge, heavy mass of slowly moving ice.
What is a Glacier?