Section 1 Earthquakes
Section 2
Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Vocabulary 3
100
Kind of Fore that causes a strike-slip fault to form
What are Shear forces?
100
Type of boundary where plates collide
What is a convergent boudary?
100
wave that passes through Earth
What is a seismic wave?
100
Small steep volcano with a cone made of tephra
What is a cinder cone volcano?
100
Vibrations that occur when rock break due to stress
What is an earthquake?
200
Type of seismic wave that causes the most damage
What are surface waves?
200
Type of boudary where places slide past one another
What is a transform boundary?
200
Seismic sea wave
What is a tsunami?
200
Instrument used to record earthquakes
What is a seismograph?
200
magma that has reached the surface of the Earth
What is lava?
300
Type of fault that may form when rocks slide past one another in opposite directions
What is a strike-slip fault?
300
Type of boundary where plates move apart?
What is a divergent boundary?
300
Underground center of an earthquake
What is the focus?
300
Large rising bodies of magma not at plate boundaries
What are hot spots?
300
Cone-shaped mountains that spew out lava or gas
What are volcanoes?
400
Type of fault that may form when rocks are compressed?
What is a reverse fault?
400
These eruptions occur when very fluid magma oozes from cracks in Earth's surface
What are fissure eruptions?
400
Bits of rock or solidified lava dropped from the air
What is tephra?
400
Volcano formed by gentle eruptions of fluid lava
What is a shield volcano?
400
Break in Earth's rocks caused by stress
What is a fault?
500
The fastest type of seismic wave
What are primary waves?
500
Type of volcano that often forms on subbduction zones.
What is a composite volcano?
500
Long crack where lates diverge
What is a rift?
500
number based on seismic wave amplitude
What is magnitude?
500
Point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus
What is the epicenter?
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