Stress & Faults
the force that acts on rock to changes its shape or volume
What is Stress?
The shaking and trembling that results from plate movement
What is an Earthquake?
Name the cone shaped and tall volcano
What is a Composite Volcano
An area where lava frequently erupts at the surface
What is a Hot Spot?
Eruption with thick and sticky magma
What is Explosive Eruption?
Pulls on Earth's crust, stretching the rock.
What is Tension?
Waves that travel the fastest
What is Primary Waves
Eruptions that have a thin and runny magma
What are Quiet Eruptions?
Where magma collects before it erupts
What is Magma Chamber?
Swelling, tilting and gas emissions can be monitored to show changes using a
What is a Seismograph
The hanging wall slips down relative to the footwall
What is Normal Fault?
A fold in a rock that bends downward
Can detect rumblings deep inside a volcano before it erupts.
What is a Seismograph?
Magma that reaches the surface
What is Lava?
True or False: Typically the public can be notified if an eruption is predicted.
What is True?
A Reverse Fault can be found at what type of boundary
What is a Convergent Boundary?
These result in a circular rolling motion
What is a Surface Wave?
Volcano that is said to be more of an immediate threat
What is Active?
Molten mixture of rock-forming substances, gases, and water from the mantle
What is Magma?
Mount Fuji in Japan is an example of what type of volcano
What is a Composite Volcano?
An example of a Strike-Slip Fault
What is the San Andreas Fault
True or False: Volcanoes add new material to Earth's Surface
What is True?
A sleeping volcano
What is Dormant?
Mt. Vesuvius in Italy is a _______________ volcano
What is Cinder Cone?
What is 79AD?