Miscellaneous
Studying Earthquakes
Plate Boundaries
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
The P in P waves stands for this word, meaning first.
What is Primary?
100
This is the official name of a the field of science that deals with earthquakes.
What is seismology?
100
This is the fault that occurs when 2 tectonic plates travel towards each other.
What is convergent?
100
This is the scale used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes, named after a past scientist.
What is the Richter scale?
100
Lava underground--yet to erupt-- is referred to as this.
What is magma?
200
This 2015 movie, featuring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, is named after this transform fault located in California, US.
What is San Andreas?
200
This is the machine that records the seismic waves of earthquakes.

What is a seismograph?

200
This is the plate boundary that forms when 2 tectonic plates move away from each other.
What is divergent?
200
The focus is the location inside Earth where seismic waves originate after rocks first move along a (  ).
What is fault?
200
Along with lava, when a volcano erupts, this comes out of the mouth, and forms choking clouds.
What is volcanic ash?
300
Many earthquakes occur along the border of this tectonic plate, forming the Ring of Fire.
What is the Pacific plate?
300
The recording of an earthquake created by the seismograph.
What is a seismogram?
300
This area of earthquake and volcanic activity that surrounds the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
300
When a force is applied to rock along plate boundaries, the rock can change shape. We refer to this as (  ).  (Fill in the blank)
What is rock deformation?
300
This type of volcano are large, with gentle slope of basaltic lava.
What are shield volcanoes?
400
The focus is located directly beneath this.
What is the epicenter?
400

On a seismogram, this is the wave that comes after a primary wave.

What is a secondary wave?
400
This is the place that a tectonic plate sinks into when going beneath another, lighter plate.
What is the subduction zone?



400
The (  ) earthquakes occur at convergent plate boundaries. (Fill in the blank)
What is deepest?
400
In 79 A.D., this volcano— located in south-central Italy— covered the city of Pompeii in volcanic ash, resulting in thousands of deaths.
What is Mt. Vesuvius?
500
This national park is set to erupt any time now, resulting in a catastrophe for the whole world.
What is Yellowstone?
500
While both primary and secondary waves can travel through solid rock, only P waves can pass through gases and this.
What are liquids?
500
Volcanoes that occur far from tectonic plate boundaries are referred to as these. An example would be the Hawaiian Islands.
What are hot spots?
500
This scale is used by seismologists to measure an earthquakes intensity based on descriptions of the earthquakes effect on people and structures.
What is the Modified Mercalli scale?
500
Some explosive volcanoes can produce fast-moving avalanches of ash, gas and rock referred to as this.
What is pyroclastic material?
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