General
Earthquakes
Volcanos
Vocabulary
Mixed Bag
100
Trained dogs
What is how are missing people found?
100
Epicenter
What is the center of the earthquake called?
100
Lava tubes
What is what lava flows downhill in channels called.
100
Seismograph
What is the name of the machine that scientists use to measure earthquakes?
100
Magma
What is what lies under the lithosphere, and is soft, but not quite melted.
200
Plate tectonics theory
What is how volcanoes, earthquakes and mountains are formed.
200
Richter Scale
What is the name of the scale of how earthquakes are measured?
200
Magma Chamber..what is above it?
What is what lies under a caldera.
200
Tsunami
What is the term used for a giant wave caused by an earthquake under the ocean?
200
Great San Francisco earthquake of 1906
What is the name of one famous earthquake.
300
Movements such as side to side, up and down, and grinding.
What is how the sides of the earth's plates move to cause an earthquake.
300
Fault lines
What is the term that describes where the earth's plates crack?
300
Shield cone..is a type of what?
What is the name of a type of volcano which is formed by hot lava flowing down the sides of the mountain.
300
Lithosphere
What is the word used for the earth's crust and upper part of the mantle.
300
Plate boundaries
What is where volcanoes and earthquakes occur
400
Japanese word meaning "harbor wave?"
What is tsunami.
400
Ring of Fire
What is the area called where there is earthquake activity around the edges of the Pacific Ocean?
400
What the destruction of trees can be caused by...
What is a stone wind.
400
Geologist
What is the word used for scientists who study the earth.
400
Bill Nye
Who is the Science Guy.
500
A 2 on the Richter Scale.
What is the smallest earthquake you can feel.
500
How are mountains formed? When tectonic plates are apart or together?
What is when tectonic plates come together.
500
Dormant
What is a volcano called that has not erupted for 200 years?
500
What is Plate Tectonics?
What is the study of the movement of the Earth's crust.
500
One of nature's mysterious forces
What is an earthquake?
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