Guess The Word That Goes With The Definition Below
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Define The Word
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hot fluid or semifluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed on cooling.
Magma
100
A _______ Scale measures the amount of energy released by an earthquake
Richter
100
Fault block
100
Seismic Wave
an elastic wave in the earth produced by an earthquake or other means.
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cracks in the earth's crust and lithosphere
faults
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A _____ Scale measures the effects of the earthquake
Mercali Intensity
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Folded Complex Mountain
200
Plate Tectonics
a theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust and many associated phenomena as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates which move slowly over the underlying mantle
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the point on the earth's surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake.
epic center
300
The _____contains over 1/2 of the world's volcanoes
Pacific Ring Of Fire
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Upwarped mountains
300
Earthquake
a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.
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waves that travel fast , move through solid and liquid layers of earth, and pull and push rock creating a back and forth motion
Primary Waves
400
____ are volcanoes that have very steep sides
Cindercone
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Volcanic mountains
400
Lava
. hot molten or semifluid rock erupted from a volcano or fissure, or solid rock resulting from cooling of this:
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waves that travel slower than p waves, only moves through solid rock, and moves at right angels to primary waves causing works to move up and down and side to side
Secondary waves
500
The volcano which has the most violent eruption type is _____
Composite Volcano
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Composite Volcano
500
P wave
a longitudinal earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the first conspicuous wave to be recorded by a seismograph.