Guess The Word That Goes With The Definition Below
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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.

200

cracks in the earth's crust and lithosphere

faults

200

A _____ Scale measures the effects of the earthquake

Mercali Intensity

200


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

300

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

300


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.

400

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

400


Volcanic mountains

400

Lava

. hot molten or semifluid rock erupted from a volcano or fissure, or solid rock resulting from cooling of this:

500

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

500


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.



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