Shake it up!
Keep Shaking!
Under and Above
It's Explosive!
The exploding mountains
100
The shaking of the earth's crust
What is an earthquake?
100
The break in the earth's crust along which rocks move.
What is a fault?
100
The earth's plates move on top of a partially melted ___
What is the mantle?
100
The smallest of the volcanoes.
What is the cinder cone volcano?
100
The underground storage for volcanic magma
What is the magma chamber?
200
The core
What is the deepest layer of the Earth?
200
The continent sized sections of the crust and upper mantle.
What is a plate?
200
Scientists can measure earthquakes by using two scales:
What are the Richter scale and the Mercalli scale?
200
The largest of the volcanoes.
What is the composite volcano?
200
Under the ground lava is called this
What is magma?
300
The thickest layer of the earth
What is the mantle?
300
The instrument that records the energy released by an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
300
California has over 15,000 earthquakes a year. California has a ____________running through the state.
What is a fault?
300
The large hill that might erupt!
What is a shield volcano?
300
The top of the vent.
What is the crater?
400
The point on the earth's surface right above the focus of an earthquake.
What is the epicenter?
400
The underground point where an earthquake first starts.
What is the focus?
400
The volcano that erupted in 1980 in Washington State
What is Mount St. Helens?
400
The central tube through which magma rises.
What is the central vent?
400
Another name for the Pacific Plate.
What is the "Ring of Fire?"
500
The layer of the earth that contains all the land and ocean floor.
What is the crust?
500
The hottest layer of the earth.
What is the inner core?
500
The plate that has the most volcanic activity.
What is the Pacific Plate?
500
Another name for the central vent
What is conduit?
500
The power that erupts from some volcanoes
What is ash?
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