How Do Mountains Form?
What Happens During an Earthquake?
How Are Earthquakes Located and Measured?
How Do Volcanoes Form?
VOCAB
100
A _____________ forms when continental plates collide.
What is a fold mountain?
100
A sudden movement of the earth's surface.
What is an earthquake?
100
P-Waves and S-Waves travel at different ______.
What are speeds?
100
An opening in earth's crust through which melted rock, hot gasses,rock fragments, and ash reach the surface.
What is a volcano
100
A ______ is a horizontal layer of rock
What is a strata
200
Earth's tallest landforms
What Are Mountains
200
Occurs usually at convergent boundaries, where rock is being squeezed.
What is a reverse fault?
200
A scale to measure earthquakes.
What is the Richter Scale?
200
____ can be hotter than 1,100°C(2,000°F)
What is lava
200
A ______ is the preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the distant past.
What is a fossil?
300
a mountain that forms from a block of crust is pushed upward or downward along a fault.
What is a fault block mountain?
300
P-Waves, then S-Waves, and then Surface Waves appear in this order on a ___________( a machine).
What is a seismograph?
300
the point underground where an earthquake begins
What is the focus of an earthquake
300
A volcano with slopes made mostly of ash and rock.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
300
The point directly above the focus of an earthquake
What is an epicenter?
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