Vocabulary
What are the rocks that are produced when magma and lava cools and hardens?
What is igneous rocks
What is the name of scientists who studies the movement of the earth (earthquakes)
Who are seismologists
What is the name of the volcano that has gradually sloping sides and looks like upside-down saucers?
What is a shield volcano
What is the name of the area of the earth that is made up of the crust and upper area of the mantle?
What is the lithosphere
What is the name of the bowl shaped opening at the top of the volcano?
What is a crater
What is the name of the hot spring that periodically blows steam and hot water into the air?
What is a geyser
What is the name of the machine that detects, times, and measures the movements of the earth or earthquakes?
What is a seismograph
What is the name of the volcano that has a large bowl-like crater at the to and is larger than a hill, but smaller than a mountain?
What is a cinder-cone volcano
Name the four layers of the earth from the outermost part to the innermost part?
What is crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
What are pockets of molten rock deep in the lithosphere?
What is magma chamber
What is a hot spring that periodically blows steam and hot water into the air?
What is a geyser
What is the release of stored energy that occurs when plate boundaries shift suddenly?
What is an earthquake
What is an avalanche of red-hot dust and gases that races down the side of the volcano?
What is pyroclastic flow
The San Andreas is an example of this type of fault.
What is strike-slip
What is the name of the eruption that comes out of the side of a volcano?
What is a flank eruption
What is the idea that the earth's crust is made up of moving plates?
What is the theory of plate tectonics
What is the term for breaks in the earth's surface along which rocks move?
What is a fault
What is the name of the volcano that is very large, symmetrical, and cone shaped?
What is composite cone volcano
The Great Rift Valley in Africa is an example of this type of fault?
What is a normal fault
What is the opening in the earth's surface where lava flows out?
What is the vent
What is places where two or more tectonic plates meet?
What is plate boundaries
What is the name of the scale that measures the magnitude or strength of an earthquake?
What is the Richter Scale
What is the name of the area located around the Pacific Ocean that produces 70% of the world's volcanoes and earthquakes?
What is the Ring of Fire
The Himalayan Mts. in Asia is an example of this type of fault.
What is a reverse fault
What is tephra?
What is a mixture of cinder, ash, and rocks. This is what composite cone volcanoes are made from