Volcanoes
What are the three types of volcanoes?
What is shield, cinder-cone, composite?
What is the breaking down of rocks?
Mount St. Helens or Mount Shasta are examples of this type of volcano
What is composite?
Magma is slowly forced upward and flows out through an opening called this
What is a vent?
This is the slowest type of wave.
What are surface waves?
What is plate boundaries and fault lines?
What is the difference between erosion and deposition?
What is the erosion move the rocks due to forces of nature while deposition is the laying down of sediments?
What city was wiped out by a volcano?
What is Pompeii?
What is magma is inside, lava is outside the earth's crust?
What causes earthquakes to occur?
When the stress on the edge overcomes the friction, there is an earthquake that releases energy in waves that travel through the earth's crust and cause the shaking that we feel.
The process by which weathered rock is picked up and moved to a new place.
What is erosion?
What are Yellowstone in Wyoming?
What is Valles Caldera in New Mexico?
What is Long Valley Caldera in California?
What three ways are volcanoes classified?
What is active, dormant, and extinct?
What is the order of the arrival times of the different types of waves, from first to last.
What are p-waves, then s-waves, then surface waves.
Explain how tectonic plates can cause earthquakes.
What collide, scrape, and collide?
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What is the Richter , Mercalli, or moment magnitude scale?
The location beneath the vent of a volcano where molten rock (magma) is stored prior to eruption.
What is the magma chamber?
What are the three types of faults? Explain how they move.
What is normal faults (hanging wall moves downward), reverse/thrust (hanging wall moves upward), and strike-slip (plates move horizontally sliding)
What are the 6 types of physical weathering?
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These three states of the US have the highest earthquake risk.
What are California, Alaska and Hawaii?