This is a giant Ocean wave caused by an earthquake on the seafloor.
What is a Tsunami?
100
Kilauea, in Hawaii, is an example of this type of volcano?
What is a shield volcano?
100
This wave moves the fastest of the 3 types of seismic waves.
What is a primary (or P) wave.
100
The name of the instrument used to measure the intensity of an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
200
This is where the youngest rock is found on the ocean floor.
What is at the mid-ocean ridges?
200
What scale is used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake?
What is the Richter Scale?
200
This type of volcano can have both quiet lava based and explosive tephra based erruptions.
What is a composite or strato volcano?
200
Ash and cinders are examples of this.
What is tephra?
200
The oldest rock on the ocean floor should be found here.
What is close to the continents?
300
Mountains and Volcanoes usually form at this type of boundary.
What is a Convergent Boundary?
300
This is the word used for where the earthquake starts on the surface of the earth.
What is the epicenter?
300
This type of volcano has steep sides and only tephra based, violent erruptions.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
300
The point deep inside the earth, where the earthquake begins.
What is the focus?
300
If you were building a structure to withstand an earthquake, which basic shape would hold up the best?
What is a triangle?
400
The San Andreas Fault is an example of this type of plate boundary.
What is a Transform Boundary?
400
This wave causes the most destruction and moves with a rolling, side to side motion.
What is a surface wave?
400
The Hawaiian Islands were not formed at a Convergent Boundary subduction zone like most volcanoes. What is the cause of the volcanoes in Hawaii?
What is a Hot spot?
400
This is the name of the famous fault in California that is responsible for most of California's earthquakes.
What is the San Andreas fault?
400
This is the basic name for rocks that are volcanic in origin. (where they came from)
What is Igneous?
500
This is the cause of plate movement.
What is a convection current? (caused by heating at the Core and cooling at the surface.
500
How many seismograph locations are necessary to pinpoint where the epicenter of an earthquake is?
What is 3?
500
These 2 things in a volcanoes composition can make it more explosive when it errupts.
What is silica and gases? (water or CO2)
500
What plate does the "Ring of Fire surround?
What is the Pacific Plate?
500
This was the name of the man most responsible fro starting the idea that the earth's surface is moving and changing-his idea was titled "Continental Drift" and he first named "Pangaea"