Types of Faults
Volcanoes
Mountains and Volacanoes
Volcanoes and Other Things
Types of Stress
100
The fault cuts through rock at an angle.
What is a normal fault?
100
A sleeping volcano that can awake in the future.
What is a dormant volcano
100
Is a large area of flat land elevated high above sea level.
What is a plateau?
100
Is the spread of lava as it pours out of a vent.
What is lava flow?
100
Is a force that acts on a rock to change its shape and volume.
What is stress?
200
Has the same structure as a normal fault. Compression happens here. The rocks goes together.
What is Reverse fault?
200
Is a dead volcano that is unlikely to ever erupt again.
What is an extinct volcano?
200
Is a mountain that forms in Earths crust when molten material or magma reaches the surface.
What is a volcano?
200
Occurs when two plates pull apart.
What is Tension?
300
The rocks slide past each other.
What is strike slip fault?
300
A mixture of materials can form a fast moving cloud that rushes down the sides of a volcano.
What is pyroclastic flow?
300
Is a molten mixture of rock forming substances, gases, and water from the mantle.
What is magma?
300
The resulting volcanoes sometimes creates a string of islands.
What is an Island Arc?
300
Occurs when two plates come together.
What is compression?
400
A long tube that extracts from Earth crust.
What is a pipe?
400
Is a material found in magma that forms from the elements oxygen and silica.
What is silica?
400
When magma reaches the surface.
What is lava?
400
Is an area from deep within Earths mantle rises through the crust.
What is a hot spot?
400
Can cause rock to break and slip apart or to its shape.
What is shearing?
500
Molten rock and gas leave the volcano through an opening called this.
What is a vent?
500
Is a bowl shaped area that may form at the top of a volcano around the central vent.
What is a crater?
500
Is a major belt of volcanoes.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
Beneath a volcano magma collects in this.
What is a magma chamber?
500
I think you got this.
What is I know I got this?
M
e
n
u