Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Vocabulary 3
Types of Volcanoes
Earthquake, Volcano, or both
100
_________________are cone-shaped mountains that eject lava and other materials.
What are volcanoes?
100
The _____________________scale measures the magnitude of an earthquake
What is Richter?
100
The ___________________ of an earthquake is the point on the surface of Earth directly above the focus.
What is epicenter?
100
The shape of a cinder cone is ____________.
What is small and cone-shaped.
100
Produces ash and mudslides.
What is a volcano?
200
The ___________________ is divided into about 13 major plates
What is lithosphere?
200
The instrument used to record earthquake activity is a _________________.
What is seismograph?
200
The place inside Earth where the energy in an earthquake is centered is the _________________________.
What is focus?
200
Which volcano is borad with gently sloping sides?
What is a shield volcano?
200
Caused by movement of tectonic plates.
What are both?
300
An undersea earthquake may produce a _____________________.
What is tsunami?
300
____________________ are long cracks produced at divergent plate boundaries.
What are rifts?
300
Another name for earthquake waves is _____________________.
What is seismic wave?
300
A composite volcano produces what types of materials?
What are alternating layers of lava and tephra?
300
Uses seismic safe construction techniques.
What is an earthquake?
400
The seismic waves that do the most damage to structures and property during an earthquake are ______________________.
What are surface waves?
400
Buildings constructed to withstand most earthquakes are said to be ____________________.
What is seismic safe?
400
A _________________________ is the surface of a break in a section of rocks.
What is fault?
400
Describe the eruption of a composite volcano.
What is sometimes quiet and sometimes violent?
400
Can form or happen at a rift.
What are both?
500
The __________________ of an earthquake is based on the amplitude of the seismic waves.
What is magnitude?
500
An avalanche of glowing rocks flowing on a cushion of hot gases is called __________________.
What is pyrcoclastic flow?
500
Draw a picture of a convergent, divergent and transform boundary by using arrows to show the movement of the plates.
See whiteboard.
500
Which type of volcano produces basaltic lava?
What is a shield volcano?
500
Has an elastic rebound.
What is an earthquake?
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