Plate tectonics
What type of convergent plates form a subduction zone?
Oceanic plate
A scientist who studies volcanoes is referred to as a
Volcanologist
The mixture of hot gases, ash, cinders that flows down the side of a volcano during an eruption is a called a
Pyroclastic flow
A scientist who studies earthquakes is referred to as a
seismologist
Be able to identify different types of folds
anticline and syncline
What type of convergent plates form mountains?
continental plates
What is a mountain that forms when magma reaches the surface?
Volcano
What process forms the Hawaiian Islands?
Hot spot
Daily Double !!!!!!! A fold in rock that bends upward into an arch (or rainbow) is called a(n)
Anticline
What type of stress causes folds?
Compressional
Daily Double!!!1Bonus, name three plates
Idk whoever answers first
What is the chamber that holds magma beneath the surface called?
Magma chamber
What type of lava is found in the Hawaiian Islands?
Basaltic magma
The type of seismic waves that arrive at the surface first and move by compression and expanding the ground like an accordion which causes a great deal of damage to buildings in the area are called
Surface wave
Be able to identify the different types of earthquake waves
P S Surface
Daily Double !!!!!!!!Bonus Know the locations of volcanoes.
Name any volcano
Whoever answers first
What is the long tube that allows magma to reach the surface called?
pipe
What type of volcano is the Hawaiian Islands?
shield
What type of earthquake wave moves the fastest and arrives first?
P wave
What is the location at the surface where an earthquake begins?
Epicenter
Name of the supercontinent
Pangaea
What is the opening in which magma escapes from called?
vent
What type of volcano is considered a dead volcano that is unlikely to erupt again?
extinct
What is the instrument called that produces a seismogram?
seismograph
What is the location inside the earth where an earthquake begins?
Focus