Earthquakes I Category
Earthquakes occur along these
What are fault lines?
Where the focus of an earthquake is found in relation to the ground
What is deep underground?
This type of volcano almost always erupts explosively
What is a composite volcano?
This type of volcano erupts EITHER quietly OR explosively, has a crater and a CINDER bed
What is a cinder cone volcano?
This type of volcano almost always has QUIET eruptions; an example are the Hawaiian Islands
What is a shield volcano?
TRUE or FALSE: An earthquake can have more than one intensity
What is True?
The number of magnitudes an earthquake can have at one time
What is one?
The type of this determines if a volcano will erupt mildly or violently
What is magma?
The type of this determines the type of volcano
What is eruption?
The formation of the Hawaiian Islands is one example of volcanoes forming over this (HINT: The words rhyme)
What is a hot spot?
Stress builds up in rocks along a fault. The rocks slip and this is released in the form of seismic waves
What is energy?
This scale is used to tell how much DAMAGE was done during an earthquake
What is the Mercalli Scale?
Columns of extreme HEAT that rise through the Earth, forming magma that rises to the surface to form a volcano (HINT: The words rhyme)
What is a hot spot?
This (lava, magma) is found below Earth's surface
What is magma?
This type of volcano commonly develops into large and steep volcano mountain; this type also has explosive eruptions
What is a composite volcano?
The point ABOVE GROUND where the earthquake occurs is this
What is the epicenter?
The best location (type of ground) for a building in an earthquake zone (sand, solid rock, fault line)
What is solid rock?
The formation of the Hawaiian Islands is an example of this. Hint: where the volcanoes form
What is volcanoes forming over a hot spot
This (lava, magma) is found above Earth's surface
What is lava?
This is a cloud of gas and rock particles that is extremely fast and deadly
What is pyroclastic flow?
The point BELOW GROUND where the earthquake occurs is this
What is the focus?
Why earthquakes occur more often in California than in Massachusetts
What is California is located on a plate boundary and MA is not?
A piece of evidence from the Hawaiian Islands that plates are moving
What is as the plates move, the older volcanoes move away from the hot spot?
TRUE or FALSE: There are no active volcanoes in the United States
What is FALSE
This scale uses a seismograph to measure the magnitude of earthquakes
What is the Richter Scale?