Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Volcanoes
Volcanoes
Misc.
100
An underground holding pool for hot magma
What is magma chamber?
100
Molten rock that flows out onto Earth's surface.
What is Volcanic Lava?
100
Shield
What type of volcano is low and domed?
100
Pipe
In what part of a volcano does magma rise from the magma chamber?
100
A huge floating section Earth's crust bumping into one another and drifting because of Convection Currents.
What is a Tectonic Plate?
200
An instrument used by geologists to measure earth quake waves.
What is a seismograph?
200
Heat transfer currents that rises from the inner core through the mantle towards the crust...remember the mantle is a fluid.
What are Convection Currents?
200
Cinder Cone
What type of earthquake is the most violent and destructive?
200
Mountains made of lava layers that alternate with layers of cinders.
What is a Composite volcano?
200
Quiet and Explosive
What are 2 types of volcano eruptions?
300
a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.
What is an earthquake?
300
Hot molten rock that is underground.
What is Magma?
300
Mount Vesuvius
What was the cinder cone volcano that erupted in the middle of the night and destroyed Pompeii?
300
Dormant
What kind of volcano that is not erupting?
300
Strike slip
What is the type of fault that slides past each other?
400
A large basin that can form at the top of a volcano
What is a crater?
400
Inner core
What is the deepest most dense section of the Earth ?
400
The recent movie that shows the destructive power of a large earthquake along a famous fault in L.A.
What is San Andreas?
400
Extinct
What is a "dead" volcano?
400
dip-slip
What is the type of fault that dips below the other?
500
Most of the magma from a volcano comes up through a rocky opening.
What is a volcanic vent?
500
epicenter
What is the point of the Earth's surface that is directly above an earthquakes focus?
500
Poisonous gases
How can a volcano kill you invisably?
500
Ring of Fire
Where do many volcanos occur around the Pacific Rim?
500
focus
What is the point miles underground where an earthquake actually occurs.
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