Vocabulary
Natural events that can cause great damage.
Natural disasters
A sudden, violent shaking of the ground caused by movement of giant plates in the earth's crust.
What is Earthquake
A boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates move away from each other.
Name of the place where most volcanoes and earthquakes take place.
Ring of Fire
This career studies volcanoes.
volcanologist
A scientist who studies earthquakes.
What is a seismologist
Large ocean wave caused by a disruption in the ocean floor
What is Tsunami
This is where two boundaries collide into each other.
Convergent
Name of the place in the Midwest where most tornadoes take place
What is tornado alley
Seismologist.
An instrument used to record data about earthquakes.
What is seismograph
An opening on Earth's surface that allows molten rock, called magma, to escape from inside the earth.
What is Volcano
Where plate boundaries slide past each other.
What is a transform boundary
The number of major tectonic plates.
What is 7.
This career studies the earth.
What is a geologist.
Large, moving slabs of rock that make up the planet’s outer layer.
What is tectonic plates or Earth's plates
a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water.
What is a drought
Movement caused by warm fluids rising and cooler fluids sinking.
what is convection
Name the layers of earth in order. There are 4
What is crust mantle outer core and inner core
This career studies the weather.
What is meteorologist
When two tectonic plates slowly crash into each other and mountains are formed.
What is uplift
a storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone that forms over the ocean.
When one tectonic plate converges under another due to density differences.
What is subduction
The ring of fire surrounds this ocean.
What is the career that studies tsunamis
What is seismologist