What are subduction, collision, divergent and transform plates?
100
This is the most common type of boundary where earthquakes will occur.
What is a transform plate boundary?
100
This type of volcano has gently sloping sides, thin runny lava, and little ash.
What is a shield volcano?
100
Examples of this type of volcano include Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Fuji and Mt. Vesuvius.
What is a stratovolcano?
100
This is the point above the surface the focus. It is where the shaking is the greatest.
What is the epicenter?
200
Name 3 impacts of a divergent boundary.
What are canyons, valleys, trenches, volcanoes or earthquakes?
200
This measures the seismic waves of an earthquake and is used to locate the epicenter by measuring the difference in arrival time between P-waves and S-Waves.
What is a seismograph?
200
This type of volcano is very destructive. It has lots of ash but very little lava. The lava it does have is thick and sticky. These volcanoes are very tall and look like mountains.
What is a stratovolcano?
200
This term refers to how thick a liquid is.
What is viscosity?
200
This occurs when an earthquake occurs below the water.
What is a tsunami?
300
Draw a subduction boundary. And name 1 thing that can form there.
What are islands, volcanoes, mountains or trenches?
300
This is where the earthquake begins underground and energy is released from here.
What is the focus?
300
This type of volcano has a dramatic fiery display. It is often seen in movies and tv shows. This volcano also has a very distinct caldera (crater) on its top. It also frequently has side vents.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
300
How many super volcanoes are on the planet?
5! 3 of them are in US.
300
On a scale of 1-10 to this measures of the magnitude of the earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
400
Name the part of the earth that is made up of the crust and the upper mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
400
The order in which the three types of seismic waves reach the surface.
What are p-waves, s-waves, and surface waves (l-waves)?
400
Name the 3 main parts of the volcano and the order the magma flows through it.
What is the magma chamber, pipe and vent?
400
This man had a fleet of ships during the time of the Roman Empire. He led a rescue mission during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. Unfortunately he died from breathing in toxic gas while on shore. Who was he?
Who was Pliny the Elder?
400
This was formed from the Indian Plate hitting the Eurasian Plate.
What are the Himalayas?
500
This is the plastic-like layer of the earth that the plates move on top of.
What is asthenosphere?
500
Explain how earthquakes occur.
As two plates slide past each other sometimes they become stuck because of their rough edges. When they are stuck together they build up pressure and potential energy. When they finally break free they release KE in the form of an earthquake.
500
This is the name for the ash, smoke and lava that is ejected out of the top of the volcano that quickly flows down its sides.
What is pyroclastic flow?
500
During this year Mt. Vesuvius erupted, burying Pompeii, Stabiae, and Herculaneum in 30 feet of ash.
What is 79 CE?
500
Name 2 out of the 3 things use for evidence of a supervolcano in the area.