Hurricane
Tornado
Earthquake
Volcano
Toss Up
100
Eye.
What is the center of a hurricane?
100
A visible rotating column of air.
What is a vortex?
100
An instrument used to record earthquake events.
What is a seismograph?
100
Magma that has reached the surface.
What is lava?
100
Segments of the lithosphere that "float" on the asthenosphere.
What are tectonic plates?
200
The most dangerous component of a hurricane.
What is a storm surge?
200
This scale is used to rate tornadoes based on wind speed and damage.
What is the Enhanced Fujita scale?
200
These seismic waves arrive first after an earthquake.
What are P (Primary) waves?
200
Location of 75% of the Earth's active volcanoes.
What is the Ring of Fire?
200
L waves and R waves
What are surface waves?
300
This scale is used to rank hurricane intensities.
What is the Saffir Simpson Scale?
300
East of the Rocky Mountains and West of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is Tornado Alley?
300
This scale is used to measure the total amount of energy released by an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
300
Shield, composite, cinder-cone.
What are types of volcanoes?
300
Low-pressure systems
What are hurricanes and tornadoes?
400
Warm tropical water.
What is the energy source for hurricanes?
400
April through June.
What is tornado season?
400
80% of earthquakes occur here.
What is the Ring of Fire?
400
Type of volcanism that formed Hawaii.
What is a hot spot?
400
June through November.
What is hurricane season?
500
Typhoon.
What is a hurricane in the Pacific Ocean?
500
Thunderstorm.
What is the energy source of tornadoes?
500
The point directly above the focus of an earthquake on the Earth's surface.
What is the epicenter?
500
Divergent and ocean-continent convergent.
What are the boundaries that form volcanoes?
500
Storm with wind speeds over 74mph.
What is a hurricane?
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