Earthquake basics
Seismology
What is the study of earthquakes called?
Volcanology
What is the study of volcanoes called?
What theory says Earth's lithosphere is broken into plates?
Primary Wave
Which wave is in the compressional push-pull wave?
Natural feature on Earth's surface
What is a landform?
Seismograph
What tool records earthquake waves
volcanologist
What scientist studies volcanoes?
Normal fault
What type of fault forms when rocks are pulled apart?
S Waves
Which wave moves from side to side?
an example that is not a landform
What is Mount Rushmore?
Seismogram
What is the recording of the shaking called?
What is a stationary place in the mantle that forms volcanoes called?
Reverse Fault
What type of fault forms when rocks are pushed together?
Surface wave
Which wave moves along Earth's surface and causes the most damage?
Erosion, deposition, tectonics, volcanism,
What process can form landforms?
Focus
What is the point inside the Earth where an Earthquake starts called?
fast moving cloud of hot gas and ash from an eruption
What is pyroclastic flow
Strike-slip
What type of fault forms when rocks slide past each other?
Rock and ash thrown from a volcano
What is tephra?
Explain why volcanoes and earthquakes can change landforms quickly
They rapidly reshape Earth's surface
Triangulation
What is the technique used to locate an earthquake's epicenter using three stations?
Region with lots of volcanoes and earthquakes
What is the pacific ring of fire?
Convergent/Divergent
Which TWO types of plate boundaries form volcanoes?
Tsunamis, landslides, fires, liquefaction
Strato, cinder and shield
What are the three sizes of volcanoes?