Caused by the forces pushing and pulling on the Earth's crust?
What is stress?
100
A large area of flat land that is raised high above sea level.
What is a plateau?
100
A break or crack along which rocks move.
What are faults?
100
Type of stress that squeezes rocks together.
What is compression?
200
Mountains formed by blocks of rock uplifted by normal faults.
What is a fault-block mountain?
200
Scale used to determine the intensity of an earthquake.
What is the Richter scale?
200
Uplifted area caused by rising magma.
What is a dome?
200
What are the three type of volcanic activity?
What are active, dormant, and extinct?
200
Formed when the block of land between two normal faults slides downward.
What is a rift valley?
300
The reason why the Earth's crust does not sink down into the mantle.
What is the crust is less dense than the mantle?
300
The area on the surface above the original point of an earthquake.
What is the epicenter?
300
Volcanoes made from gentle lava flows accumulating over a long period of time.
What are shield volcanoes?
300
Volcano made of material from past eruptions.
What are cinder cone volcanoes?
300
When the downward force of the crust and the upward force of the mantle are balanced.
What is isostasy?
400
List the two methods by which plateaus can form.
What are the process by which mountains form and vertical faulting?
400
A fault in which the hanging wall moves down relative to the foot wall.
What is a normal fault?
400
Give an example of a fault-block mountain and a rift valley in the U.S.
What are the Rocky Mountains and Death Valley?
400
A fault along which the blocks move horizontally past each other.
What is a lateral fault?
400
Volcanoes made up of material from past eruptions that has been covered by lava.
What are composite volcanoes?
500
List the four factors that determine whether or not a rock will fold or break.
What are temperature, pressure, stress, and type of rock?
500
List the factors that might determine the amount of damage caused by earthquakes.
What are the strength of the earthquake, type of rock and soil, population levels, types of buildings, and the time of the earthquake?
500
List and describe the three types of waves produced by earthquakes.
What are primary - fastest, travel through anything
secondary - slower, travels through solids
surface - slowest, travels on the surface, causes the most damage?
500
When is Mr. League's birthday?
What is
500
List the three major earthquake zones and where they are located.
What are the ring of fire, mediterranean zone, and the mid-atlantic ridge?