Volcanoes
Earthquakes/Seismic Waves
Layers of the Earth
Weather & Climate
Plate Tectonics
100

This volcano has a gentle slope, is nonexplosive, and the lava is runny and spreads over a wide area.

What is a shield volcano?
100
These waves are also known as primary or pressure waves.
What is P Waves?
100
This is the hottest part of the Earth and is considered a hot solid iron ball.
What is the inner core?
100

The average, year after year conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds, and clouds in an area

What is climate?

100
Convergent, Divergent, and Transform are types of this.
What are tectonic plate boundaries?
200
This volcano is explosive with pyroclastic flow and has a short lifespan (slope is around 500 meters).
What is a Cinder Cone Volcano?
200

These waves only travel through solids and cannot travel through liquids.

What are S waves?
200
This is the outer layer of Earth and is about 50 km thick.
What is the crust?
200

The state of the Earth's atmosphere at a specific time and place.  It is what changes from day to day.

What is weather?

200

This is the scientist who thought of Pangaea (the idea of all the continents being once joined in a single huge continent).

Bonus: The hypothesis of continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations. +100

Who is Alfred Wegener?


Bonus: What is the Continental Drift?

300
This volcano has a long lifespan, the explosions have the greatest damage including pyroclastic flow and lava, and has a height of about 1,000-4,000 meters.
What is a Composite Volcano?
300

These are the first waves of an earthquake to be detected and are the fastest type of seismic waves.

What are P Waves?
300
This is made up of iron and nickel and has a liquid molten rock formation.
What is the outer core?
300

a "dome" of water that sweeps across the coast where the hurricane lands.  It causes great damage, washing away beaches, and erodes the coastline.

What is storm surge?



300

The process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises toward the surface and solidifies.

What is Sea Floor Spreading?
400

This is a body of molten rock deep underground that feeds a volcano.

What is the Magma Chamber?
400

These are the slowest waves, but they do the most damage and destruction; often associated with earthquakes.

What are Surface Waves?
400
This is the widest section of Earth and contains convection currents.
What is the mantle?
400

What is the difference between a hurricane and a cyclone?

What is the geographic location where they occur.

400

This is a chain of underwater mountains that runs through the center of the Atlantic Ocean and where sea floor spreading takes place.

What is the Mid-Ocean Ridge?
500

This is how lava flows and affects the surface of lava in different ways.


Bonus: This is a type of lava that has a high viscosity and flows slowly (wax and glassy). +100

What is Viscosity?



Bonus: Pahoehoe

500

When locating an earthquake, this is the point on the Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's starting point.

Bonus: This is the point inside the Earth where an earthquake begins. +100
What is the epicenter?


Bonus: What is the focus point?

500

This layer of the mantle is very rocky and solid and is the upper layer (closest to the crust).

What is the Lithosphere?
500

What are 3 things you should do if the area you live in is in a tornado warning?

What is:

1.  Go to the lowest level of your house or a storm shelter.  If no basement then to the middle of the ground floor.

2.  Stay away from windows and doors to avoid flying debris

3.  If outdoors, lie flat in a ditch

500

When a plate with oceanic crust collides with a plate with continental crust, and the oceanic crust sinks into the asthenosphere.

What is a subduction zone?
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