How Do Mountains Form
What Happens During An Earthquake
How Are Earthquakes Located And Measured
How Do Volcanoes Form
Vocabulary
100
The HIGHEST, not tallest, mountains in the world.
What are the Himalayas?
100
cracks in the crust
What are faults?
100
the person who devised a scale to measure the magnitude of an earthquake
who is charles richter?
100
melted rock beneath the crust
What is magma?
100
the point on the surface directly above the focus of the earthquake
What is an epicenter?
200
where volcanoes usually form
What is a convergent boundary?
200
________usually occur at convergent plate boundaries
What are reverse faults?
200
Earthquakes underwater can cause a __________________________________________________________________________________________________
What is a tsunami?
200
where volcanoes often form
where are convergent plate boundaries?
200
an opening in Earth's crust through which melted rock, hot gases, rock fragments, and ash reach the surface.
What is a volcano?
300
California's largest mountain range, the Sierra Nevada, was shaped by________________________________________
What is erosion?
300
_________ are the main tool for recording earthquakes
What are seismographs?
300
the most deadly tsunami ever recorded was in the year ________
when was 2004?
300
a _________ _________ _________ is a volcano with slopes made mostly of rock and ash
What is a cinder cone volcano?
300
a tool for recording seismic waves
What is a seismograph?
400
a mountain that forms where continental plates collide, causing the crust to fold and crumble
What is a fold mountain?
500
a string of volcanic islands that form where one oceanic plate sinks beneath another
What is an island arc?
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