Earthquakes
When one tectonic plate suddenly slides over or pulls away from another
What is an earthquake?
This word means to set off.
What is trigger?
a landslide of snow
What is an avalanche?
an enormous heap of ice that moves slowly over land
What is a glacier?
another word for violent
What is fierce?
This person can predict when an earthquake will happen,
What is no one?
Another word for wreckage or waste
What is debris?
a type of wall or fence
What is a barrier?
bits of snow and ice that form a glacier
What the firn?
the magma that runs out of a volcano
What is lava?
They study the earth.
What are geologists?
a giant wave
What is a tsunami?
The place where a heap of snow crashes down or land.
What is a run-out zone?
This glacier forms in the mountains.
What is an alpine glacier?
large heavy boulders
What are volcanic bombs?
This is another word for magnitude.
What is size?
to get away
What is evacuation or evacuate?
a material used to trigger an avalanche
What is dynamite?
pile of natural debris
What is a moraine?
this is caused by lava mixing with gas and water
What is an eruption?
Measures how hard the ground shakes during an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
The wearing away of soil
What is erosion?
rocks in rock avalanches break free from this
What is bedrock?
chunk of ice that falls into the sea
What is an iceberg?
dust from a volcanic eruption blocks this
What is visibility?