Ways to Measure Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Faults
Volcano Sturcture
Volcanoes and Earthquakes
100
This wave moves side to side.
What is an S wave
100
This is the place where most volcanoes form.
What is the ring of fire or the boundaries of the Earth's plates?
100
The San Andreas Fault is this type of fault.
What is a strike-slip fault?
100
Liquid rock located inside a volcano.
What is magma?
100
This plate interaction makes most of the volcanoes in the ring of fire.
What is subduction or convergent plates?
200
This wave travels through both liquid and solids.
What is a P wave?
200
This is the place where volcanoes form in the middle of a plate. The Hawaiian Islands is an example of this.
What is a hot spot.
200
This type of fault is made from compression.
What is a reverse thrust fault?
200
Liquid rock outside a volcano.
What is Lava?
200
These help protect buildings from Earthquakes.
What are shear walls and cross-members?
300
This scale measures an earthquake based on the way people feel it.
What is the Mercalli Scale?
300
This provides the pressure for magma to erupt to the surface of the earth.
What is gas trapped in magma?
300
This type of fault is made from tension.
What is normal fault?
300
The tube that leads to the vent or crater.
What is the pipe.
300
This causes the most earthquake related deaths.
What is damage to buildings?
400
This scale measures earthquakes in a logarithmic scale where each number is ten times more than the previous earthquake.
What is the Richter scale?
400
The magma in surrounding rocks flows upward because it is _______ dense than the surrounding rock.
What is less dense?
400
This type of fault is made from shearing.
What is a strike-slip fault?
400
The opening where lava comes out of the crater.
What is the vent?
400
This is the tallest mountain in the world.
What is Mt. Everest?
500
Name a device that we use to measure earthquakes.
What is a
500
The presence of earthquakes near a dormant, or non-active volcano means it will ___________.
What is cause the volcano to erupt?
500
These are the two plates that interact to make earthquake risk high along the Pacific coast
What are the Pacific and North American plates?
500
This volcano is made from layers of ash and lava.
What is a composite volcano?
500
This volcano is the largest shield volcano in the world.
What is Manau Loa?
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