Earthquake
This is a break in rock of Earth's crust or mantle.
What is a fault?
People usually think this type of volcano when they think about volcanoes. (starts with c)
What is cinder cone?
This vent carries lava but is not the main source of lava flow.
What is secondary vent?
This type of stress slips past each other.
What is shearing?
Earthquakes may cause these high-water level rising events.
What is a tsunami?
This is a number used to measure the size of an earthquake.
What is magnitude?
These volcanoes are broad and flat. They are mostly the largest volcanoes.
What is a shield volcano?
This part of a volcano contains a lot of magma
What is magma chamber?
This rock is produced from molten cooling lava like from volcanic eruptions.
What is igneous rock?
San Andrea Fault is a example of this fault.
What is slip-strike fault?
A force that acts on rocks to change their shapes or volume and has three forms.
What is stress?
This volcano is also called a composite volcano.
What is stratovolcano?
This part of a volcano is like a mouth of the volcano.
What is the crater?
This is one kind of stress that pulls on earth's crust.
What is tension?
This device measures earthquakes shake.
What is a seismometer?
This scale measures the earthquake's strength.
This determines the type of eruption of a volcano.
What is viscosity?
This is another name for the ash clouds of a volcano.
What is tephra?
This type of stress that pushes tectonic plates into each other compounding them.
What is compressive stress?
Earthquakes are made by these.
What are faults?
This scale was used to measure the earthquakes' strength but was replaced by another scale. We don't use this anymore.
What is Richter Scale?
This volcano was in the Sunda Straits and Java and was one of the loudest volcanoes in the world. (name of volcano)
What is Krakatoa?
This is a flow of gas and other volcanic material.
What is pyroclastic flow?
This made the Hawaiian volcano chain.
What is hot spot?
This earthquake caused the 2011 great tsunami of Japan.
What is Miyagi earthquake?