Earthquake properties
Earthquake measurements
Volcano locations
Volcano Types
misc.
100
These Earthquake waves travel the fastest.
What are p waves?
100
this scale relies on people's descriptions.
What is the modified Mercalli Scale
100
Due to a ____________ oceanic plate volcanoes often form at convergent boundaries.
What is subducting.
100
very large, gentle sloped volcanoes are
What are shield volcanoes?
100
Often the most dangerous aspect of a volcanic eruption is an avalanche of hot gas and ash called a ______________
What is a pyroclastic flow?
200
The location on earth's surface directly above the earthquake's focus is.....
What is the epicenter
200
There is no upper limit to the ___________________ Scale.
What is the Richter scale?
200
Iceland is a great example of a volcano forming at a ___________________
What is a divergent boundary?
200
Small steep sided volcanoes made from basaltic lava is....
What are cinder cone volcanoes?
200
The process for locating earthquakes is known as _________
What is triangulation?
300
This type of fault is caused by blocks of rock being pushed together from compression forces.
What is a reverse fault
300
The moment magnitude scale measure the Earthquake's ______________
What is "the total amount of energy released by the Earthquake."
300
The Hawaiian islands are an example of volcanoes forming above a ______________
What is plume or hotspot?
300
Large steep sided volcanoes with violent eruptions are ____
What are composite volcanoes?
300
Deeper earthquakes are more likely at ___________ boundaries?
What is convergent?
400
These waves cause rock particles to move in a rolling or elliptical motion.
What are surface waves?
400
The Modified Mercalli Scale uses Roman Numerals from ___ to _____
What is I to XII
400
Most of the United State's volcanoes are in an area known as the _______________
What is the Ring of Fire?
400
When a large volcanic eruption causes the mountain to collapse in on itself this forms......
What is a caldera?
400
A common Strike Slip fault where earthquakes are likely is the ___________________
What is the San Andreas fault?
500
______________ waves stop when they hit the liquid outer core.
What are secondary waves.
500
The largest earthquake ever recorded on the Richter scale was in Chile in 1960 and measured a _______
What is 9.5
500
Name 3 volcanoes in the United States.
What is Mt. Ranier, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Shasta, Kilauea, Mt. Redoubt, there are many others......
500
Volcanic eruptions are different depending on the amount of ______________ and or ______________ in the magma.
What is silica and or dissolved gases?
500
The ___________ fault near Memphis is a high hazard area for earthquakes.
What is the New Madrid ?
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