Earthquakes
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Groundwater
Groundwater
100
As you get closer to the epicenter of an earthquake, what happens to the intensity. (How strong it is)
It gets more intense/stronger
100
What is the name for the point where an earthquake starts on the surface of the Earth.
Epicenter
100
What is the name of the place where volcanoes are likely to occur
Ring of Fire
100
What is this a picture of?
Alluvial Fan
200
What is the name for the natural disaster that occurs when an earthquakes starts in the middle of the ocean.
Tsunami
200
What is the name for the original starting point of an earthquake. It is located underneath the surface of the Earth.
The focus
200
What are the three types of volcanoes
composite, cinder cone, shield
200
What is a well?
Hole dug to below level of water table and brings groundwater to the surface.
200
What is a geyser?
Hot spring that periodically erupts from too much built up pressure
300
A break in a body of rock.
a fault
300
What is the name for waves that are produced by Earthquakes.
Seismic Waves
300
Why are volcanoes and earthquakes so common on the ring of fire
it has many plate boundaries
300
What is a spring
Natural flow of groundwater to Earth’s surface where surface dips below water table.
300
What is the saturation zone?
Below the water table where the ground water is. Dirt/soil can not hold any more water.
400
What is the area on Earths surface where seismic waves cannot be detected
shadow zone
400
What is the name of the instrument used to measure earthquakes
seismograph
400
What are the four signs that show us a volcano might erupt soon
volcanic activity, earthquakes, slope deformation, gas emissions
400
What is a hot spring?
Magma heats rock, rock heats water; hot water/steam rises to the surface
500
Out of P and S-waves which one can pass through liquids and solids?
P-waves can pass through both.
500
What happens at a transform boundary?
two tectonic plates sliding next to each other
500
What is an artesian formation?
Sloping layer of permeable rock between two layers of impermeable rock and exposed at the surface.