Volcanoes
What is magma?
The center of a hurricane is called the ___________.
What is the eye?
The earth's (mantle or crust) is broken up into 12 major tectonic plates.
What types of waves occur first and are the fastest during an earthquake?
What are seismic waves?
Molten rock outside a volcano.
What is lava?
Hurricanes form over (warm, cold) water.
What is warm?
What do you call the active boundary between plates?
What is fault?
What types of waves cause the most damage during an earthquake?
What are surface waves?
This is a type of volcano with a slow eruption and forms a rounded mountain.
What is shield volcano?
The strongest winds are found (inside/outside) the eye.
What is inside?
What do use to measure and record the strength of earthquakes?
What is the outermost layer of the earth called?
A violent eruption would be caused by a (high,low) gas content.
What are some ways you can prepare for a hurricane?
Reasonable Answers: Evacuate, prepare an emergency kit, stay informed, prepare personal items/home
How do earthquakes change the earth's surface?
They can cause damage to buildings and roads. If they occur under water, they can cause tsunamis which cause flooding.
Which layer of the earth does magma come from?
What is the mantle?
Name some ways volcanoes can change the earth's surface.
Volcanoes can form islands, create new land, cause destruction in surrounding areas, create higher/lower mountains.
How do hurricanes change the earth's surface?
Reasonable Answers: Cause damage through flooding and high winds (knock down trees, damage homes and buildings)
What do you call the tremors that can occur after an earthquake and can cause a lot of additional damage?
What are aftershocks?
Possible Answers: Earthquake, Volcano, Hurricane, Tsunami,