Crusty the Clown
San Andreas is this type of boundary.
What is a transform boundary?
This is found directly below the epicenter
What is the focus?
This type of plate boundary formed the Himalayas.
What is a convergent boundary?
Mt. St Helens is this type of volcano.
What is a composite cone volcano? (stratovolcano)
A crack in Earth's surface AND NaCl
What is Fault Salt?
This is the reason why Yellowstone is geologically active.
What is a hot spot?
This type of wave is the most destructive.
What is a surface wave?
This 12 step scale to measure Earthquakes is not very accurate due to different building styles throughout the world.
What is a the (Mercalli) Intensity Scale?
Explosive eruptions results from this type of magma
What is high viscosity?
The origin of an Earthquake AND a comedic Halloween movie about three witches taking place is Salem.
What is focus Hocus Pocus?
This person wrote “The Origin of Continents and Oceans” where he proposed continental drift theory.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
This wave has the highest speed.
What is the P-wave?
Besides being a divergent fault line, the mid Atlantic ridge also has this type of fault.
The way a volcano erupts depends on 3 things.
Composition, Temperature, Amount of Dissolved Gas
When two plates separate AND a cleansing agent that is used to clean clothes and dishes.
What is divergent detergent?
The Red Sea is a result of this type of plate boundary.
What is a divergent boundary?
Scientists use this method to calculate the distance to the epicenter of an earthquake.
What is the P-S arrival interval?
The Pacific rim is also called this.
What is the "Ring of Fire"?
This is the name of the opening of the conduit at the surface.
What is the vent?
A concentration of heat in the mantle capable of producing magma AND a Russian astronaut.
What is hotspot cosmonaut?
This mechanism drives the movements of tectonic plates.
What is plate-mantle convection?
An earthquake with a magnitude 8.5 has this many times increase in wave amplitude than a 5.5 magnitude earthquake.
What is a 1,000x ?
Because this type of plate is denser than a continental plate, it will subduct below.
What is oceanic crust?
These are the three types of volcanoes. Hawaii is this type of volcano.
What is Shield, Composite Cone (Stratovolcano), and Cinder Cone
An instrument that amplifies ground movement AND an animal from Africa with a long neck
What is seismograph giraffe?