Earthquakes
What is the main thing that causes earthquakes?
what are tectonic plates.
What is a tornado watch?
The conditions are right for a tornado, but one is not currently happening
True or false, Volcanoes can form on the ocean floor.
True
What is a drought?
When an area gets less water than normal.
what is a wave caused by an earthquake?
What is a tsunami?
Are tornadoes or hurricanes generally more powerful?
Hurricanes
Long streams of molten rock from volcanoes are called what?
Lava Flows
What usually causes a tsunami.
What is an earthquake?
Where do most tornadoes happen?
What is North america/Tornado alley
Locations of volcanoes that form far from plate boundaries are called
hot spots
What kind of pressure system causes draughts?
High pressure systems
Which scale is used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes?
Richter scale
on average how many volcanoes erupt each year
60
Which classification of tornado on the enhanced fujita scale does the most damage?
EF5
The "scale" used to measure earthquakes based on the damage caused.
What is a Modified mercalli Scale?
At what wind speed does a tropical storm described as a hurricane.
What is 119 km/hr
Why are volcanic eruptions dangerous, even if lava moves slow enough to get away?
volcanoes also erupt with smoke, steam, ash, cinders, and gas.