Earthquake Waves
Earthquakes
Types of Lava
Types of Volcanoes
Volcano/ Earthquake Zones
100
This wave arrives first, is the fastest wave, and can travel through solids, liquids, and gases.
What is primary waves?
100
This is the most common cause of earthquakes.
What is faulting?
100
Scientist analyze this to determine the makeup of magma under the earth's surface/
What is the mineral makeup of lava?
100
Different types of volcanic eruptions form different types of .....
What is volcanoes?
100
There are this many areas where major earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.
What is three?
200
These waves travel through solids, but not through liquids and gases.
What is secondary waves?
200
This is the shaking and trembling that results from the sudden movement of part of the Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
200
Dark-colored lava and contains a lot of water.
What is basalt?
200
These volcanoes are made mostly of cinders and other rock particles that have been blown into the air.
What is cinder cones?
200
This zone circles the pacific ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
300
These waves push rock particles into the particles ahead of them and then the particles bounce (pull) back.
What is primary waves?
300
This many earthquakes a year cause severe changes in the Earth's surface.
What is twenty earthquakes?
300
Light colored lava and has little water.
What is rhyolite?
300
These volcanoes have quiet eruptions and slow lava flows with gently sloping, dome-shaped mountains formed.
What is shield volcanoes?
300
This earthquake/volcano zone is located near the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Mediterranean Zone?
400
These waves cause most of the damage during an earthquake because they bend and twist the Earth's surface.
What is surface waves?
400
This is the underground center of the earthquake.
What is a focus?
400
This lava is a combination of both light and dark lava.
What is andesite?
400
These volcanoes are built up of alternating layers of rock particles and lava.
What is composite volcanoes?
400
This zone extends through Iceland to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
500
These waves are absorbed into the liquid part of the Earth's interior.
What is secondary waves?
500
The aboveground center of the earthquake.
What is the epicenter?
500
This type of lava has lots of gas.
What is pumice/scoria?
500
This is a crater that becomes very large as a result of the collapse of its walls.
What is a caldera?
500
This fault is about 960 kilometers long and 32 kilometers deep; land to the west is moving north and land to the east is moving south.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
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