Volcanism
Volcano Types
Earthquakes
Seismic Activity
100
This is liquid rock produced under the Earth's surface
What is magma?
100
This type of volcano is found in Hawaii
What is a shield volcano?
100
A movement or trembling of the ground that is caused by a sudden release of energy when rocks along a fault move.
What is an earthquake?
100
This device records seismic waves
What is a seismograph?
200
This includes the movement of magma toward or onto the Earth's surface
What is volcanism?
200
This type of volcano is massive, somewhat steep, and has alternating explosive and quiet eruptions.
What is a composite volcano?
200
This is a break along a tectonic plate where earthquakes occur
What is a fault or fault zone?
200
These seismic waves show up first after a quake
What are P waves?
300
A vent or fissure in Earth's surface through which magma and gases are expelled.
What is a volcano?
300
This type of volcano is small and very steep with explosive eruptions
What is a cinder cone volcano?
300
This type of water wave occurs when earthquakes happen in the ocean
What is a tsunami?
300
This type of wave causes the most damage
What is an L wave/Surface wave?
400
Once magma reaches the Earth's surface it becomes this
What is lava?
400
This type of volcano often forms in the crater of a composite volcano
What is a lava dome?
400
This is the location within the earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs
What is the focus?
400
This is an active seismic and volcanic area that runs along the west coast, up north, and back down near the east coast of Asia
What is The Pacific Ring of Fire?
500
A volcanically active area of Earth's surface, commonly far from a tectonic plate boundary.
What is a hot spot?
500
This Supervolcano has an underground magma chamber that could fill the Grand Canyon many times over
What is the Yellowstone caldera?
500
This is the point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's starting point
What is the epicenter?
500
This is where Ms. V experienced an 8.8 earthquake in 2010
Where is Santiago, Chile?
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