Vocab
Sudden Ground Movement is known as what?
Earthquake
What are the main types of volcanoes?
What are Cinder cone, Shield, Composite and Supervolcanoes.
What is the most famous Fault in the United States?
What is the San Andreas Fault.
The place above the mantle plume where melted rock can form a volcano.
What is a Hotspot.
What are the three types of plate boundaries?
What is Divergent, Convergent, and Transform Plate Boundaries.
The Area above the focus on the land surface
What is the Epicenter.
What are the two types of plate boundaries that volcanoes are found along?
What are Convergent and Divergent Plate boundaries.
What are the four types of stresses?
Confining, Compression, Tension, Shear.
Where lava erupts through cracks in the ground.
What is a fissure.
What are the two types of Surface Waves?
What are Love Waves and Rayleigh Waves.
A deadly ocean wave that forms from an earthquake.
What is a Tsunami.
Name four different landforms created by lava.
What are lava domes, lava Plateaus, Islands, and Landforms.
What are the two main types of faults?
What are Dip-slip and Strike-Slip Faults.
Column of hot rock in the mantle.
What is the Mantle Plume.
80% of all Earthquakes strike here and 75% of the worlds volcanoes are located here.
What is the Pacific Ocean Basin ( Ring of Fire)
The point where the rock ruptures below earth’s surface.
What is the focus.
What are the two types of volcanic eruptions.
What is Explosive, and Effusive (Quiet) Eruptions.
What are the two types of Body Waves?
What are Primary (P) waves and Secondary (S) waves.
Hot water that bubbles onto the surface.
What is a Hot Spring.
Which type of fold arches upward.
What is the Anticline.
The type of wave that moves through the solid body of the Earth.
What is a Body Wave.
What are two features that form from volcanic activity. (Example Old Faithful)
What is a Hot Spring and a Geyser.
What are the three types of folds?
What are monocline, anticline, and syncline.
A Huge hole in a volcano into which the surface collapses.
What is a Caldera.
Name the famous Volcano in the United States. (Hint:color)
What is Yellowstone.