Earthquakes
The movement of Earth's crust resulting from the release of built up potential energy between two stuck tectonic plates.
What is an earthquake?
A volcano that no longer erupts and is in the process of of eroding.
What is an extinct volcano?
Hot melted rock moving to earth's surface.
What is magma?
What quartz is made out of.
What is silica?
The point on earth's surface that is directly about the focus.
What is an epicenter?
A destructive cloud of volcanic material that moves quickly down the side of a volcano after an explosive eruption.
What is a pyroclastic flow?
Globs of glowing lava thrown from an explosive eruption.
What are lava bombs?
A type of rock produces from volcanoes that contains a lot of holes.
What is pumice?
What are seismic waves?
A tall, explosive, cone-shaped volcano formed by layers of silica-rich lava and ash.
What is a composite volcano?
Magma turns into ____ after it leaves the volcano vent.
What is lava?
A type of lava found on continental plates?
What is think/sticky lava?
The type of plate boundary that causes earthquakes.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
A "quiet" or sleeping volcano.
The two properties that make up magma's texture.
What is silica and gas?
A type of seismic wave causes the most damage.
What are s-waves?
Normal fault, reverse fault, strike-slip fault.
What are the 3 types of fault movements?
A bowl shaped vent of a volcano after it has erupted.
What is a caldera?
A type of lava found on oceanic plates.
What is runny lava?
A set of process that keep rocky material moving from place to place on Earth.
What is the geologic cycle?