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The shock that can but won't always happen before the main shock.
What is foreshock?
100
An opening in the earth's crust.
What is a volcano?
100
The product of two inter continued plate collisions.
What are folded mountains?
100
Lines determined by the intersecting of a geological fault and the Earth’s surface.
What are fault lines?
100
A change in the original shape of a material.
What is a deformation?
200
Two pieces of land come apart.
What is normal fault?
200
Name the 3 types of volcanoes.
What is shield, composite, and cinder cone?
200
A long, narrow, deep depression in ocean floor.
What is an ocean floor?
200
Liquid layer of the Earth’s core.
What is the outer core?
200
A fast-moving current of hot gas and rock
What is a pyroclastic flow?
300
The 3 types of stress.
What is convergent, divergent, and transformation?
300
A volcano that has recently erupted is called a _______ volcano.
What is an active volcano?
300
This mountain range includes the tallest mountain in world and Asia: Mt. Everest
What is the Himalayas?
300
A plate boundary where the plates are moving apart.
What are divergent boundaries?
300
This was developed to assign a single number to quantify the energy released during an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
400
Two pieces of earth slipping past each other.
What is an earthquake?
400
A conical volcano built up by many layers of hardened lava, tephra, pumice, and volcanic ash.
What is a composite volcano?
400
The deepest part of the ocean.
What is the Marianas Trench?
400
Boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other.
What are transform boundaries?
400
A seismic scale used for measuring the intensity of an earthquake.
What is the Mercalli Scale?
500
A 9.0 magnitude earthquake happened in this country.
What is Japan?
500
This volcano erupted in August, 2013.
What is Mt. Karymsky?
500
Sea floor spreading and rift valleys form at these.
What are mid-ocean ridges?
500
Name the 3 plate movements.
What is transform, convergent, and divergent?
500
This is used by seismologists to measure the size of earthquakes in terms of the energy released.
What is the Moment Magnitude Scale?
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