Where do Earthquakes occur
The vibration on Earth's surface.
What is an Earthquake?
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Primary, secondary, surface waves.
What are three types of seismic waves?
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People that study earthquakes.
What is a seismologist?
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A vent in Earth's surface that ejects lava.
What is a volcano?
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Large mountains, new crust and a path of destruction.
What can Volcanoes create?
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Earthquakes occur on or near a _____________
Plate boundary?
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Directly above the earthquakes focus.
Where is the epicenter?
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A thick middle layer in the solid part of Earth.
What is a mantle?
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The separation of to plate boundaries.
What are divergent boundaries?
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An area of earthquakes and volcanic activity happens a lot.
What is the Ring of Fire?
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A type of fault that slides horizontally past each other.
What is a strike-slip?
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A fault line that releases a lot of energy.
What is an earthquake?
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The inside of Earth where seismic waves do not affect anything.
What is the inner and outer core?
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The volcano that is not near a plate boundary.
What are hot spots?
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Volcanic eruptions change shapes surface when they ______.
What is form?
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_______ are common where plates separate along a divergent plate boundary.
What are shallow Earthquakes?
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A type of seismic wave that causes particles to move in a rolling motion.
What is a surface wave?
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The reading of the damage of an earthquake.
What is the modified Mercalli Scale?
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Three types of volcanoes.
What is shield, composite, and cinder cone volcanoes?
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During subduction magma forms when one plate is sinking beneath another plate.
What is convergent boundaries?
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Forced pressure is applied to rock along plate boundaries making rock change shape.
What is rock deformation?
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Type of seismic wave that cant travel through water.
What is a secondary waves?
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A visual tool that seismologists use.
What is seismogram?
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Large volcanic depression formed when volcano collapse or explode.
What is a caldera?
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Plate boundary moves over a plume a volcano becomes ________.
What is inactive?
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