Mountain Building
Earthquake
Locating Quakes
Volcanoes
100
Asia's Himalayas and California's Sierra Nevada.
What are examples of convergent boundaries?
100
___________ can be classified into three main groups.
What are faults.
100
This intensity number mean total destruction.
What does XII mean?
100
Mount Fuji in Japan
What is an example of a composite volcano?
200
This can produce dramatic cliffs, such as the Rocky Mountains.
What is faulting?
200
These are called seismic waves.
What are primary waves (P-waves), secondary waves (S-waves), and love waves (L-waves)
200
Thousands of _________ happen each year.
What are earthquakes?
200
A string of islands form an ________.
What is an island arc?
300
A __________ _________ _____________ is a mountain that forms from a block of crust that is pushed upward or downward along a fault.
What is fault-block mountain.
300
____________ are the main tools for measuring the strength and duration of an earthquake.
What is a seismograph.
300
Tsunamis are noticeable in the deep waters of the _______ of the ________, but they rise when they hit ________ land
What are middle, ocean, and shallow.
300
Cinder cone, composite, and shield volcanoes.
What are the three different types of volcanoes?
400
There are normal faults, reverse faults, and strike-slip faults.
What are the different types of faults?
500
Black Hills in South Dakota and Adirondack Mountains in New York are examples of __________ ____________.
What are dome mountains?
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