Vocabulary
Parts of an Earthquake
Volcano Vocabulary
Parts of a Volcano
Types of Volcanoes
Parts of the Earth
100
The study of earthquakes is called ___________ and the scientist who study earth quakes are ________________.
What is Seismology? What is an Seismologist?
100
Any trembling or shaking of the earth's crust is
What is an earthquake?
100
created when trapped
100
What is Volcanic Ash?
100
Formed by eruptions of mostly tephra and very little lava
What is a Cinder Cone Volcano?
100
Is quite thin compared to the other layers
What is earth's Crust?
200
The study of the earth is called ______________; the scientist who studies earth's structure are called ______________.
What is geology?
What is an geologist?
200
The strength of an earthquake
What is Magnitude?
200
Magma that has reached the earth's surafce
What is lava?
200
What is Lava?
200
formed by alternating layers of tephra and lava
What is a Composite Volcano?
200
Portion of the earth that is made of solid rock
What is the earth's mantle?
300
The process by which new soil is formed as rocks crumble and break into smaller pieces
What is weathering?
300
point underground where an earthquake begins
What is a focus?
300
created when trapped gases blasts through the earths surface
What is a vent?
300
What is a Magma Chamber?
300
Formed from large amounts of very fluid lava that build up gradually
What is a Shield Volcano?
300
Earth layer that is composed up of metals rather than rock
What is the earth's Core?
400
Define the Moho Discontinuity.
Boundary between earth's crust and its mantle
400
the place at ground level directly above the focus
What is an epicenter?
400
Runs along the edge of the Pacific Ocean and is an known location where many volcanoes erupt
What is the Ring of Fire?
400
What is a Vent?
400
A volcano that produces lava fountains or fire curtains
What is a Hawaiian Volcano?
400
the outer core is __________ and the inner core is ______________
liquid; solid
500
Describe Mid-Oceanic ridges? What is it responsible for?
Underwater mountain ranges responsible for pushing earth's crustal plates further away from each other
500
Define fault
a break that appears at the boundary of two moving masses of rock
500
holes or cracks which serve as escape vents for undergrounds gases are called?
What are fumaroles?
500
What is a Crater?
500
A Volcano characterized by hot clouds of gas and dust that it expels
What is a Plinian Volcano?
500
layers and is made up of hot, flowing rock that causes tectonic plates to move
What is the mantle?