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What is Miss Booths border collies name?
Dixie
Which type of volcano is built by alternating layers of lava flows and ash flows? It can be very explosive.
Stratovolcano or Composite Volcano
Which theory helped scientist understand how and where volcanoes erupt?
Plate Tectonics Theory
Which seismic wave is the first to reach a seismic station?
"P" Wave
How many seismic stations are required to determine the epicenter of an earthquake?
3
What is Miss Booths pit lab mix name?
Sadie
Which type of volcano has steep angled sides, throws blobs of lava in the air that fall as cinders, and is built over a short period of time?
Cinder cone
What is the difference between lava and magma?
Lava - outside of the volcano
Magma- inside of the volcano
Which type of seismic wave causes the most destruction to property?
Surface wave
What is a sesimograph?
The instrument that records details of earthquakes.
Name some precautions you should take in an earthquake?
- Emergency Kit
- Determined family communciation
- Bolt shelves to the wall
- Heavy items on the bottom shelves
Which type of volcano is found in the Hawaiian Islands with thick flowing, slow moving lava? This is the most common type of volcano on earth.
Shield
What is the active volcano area around the Pacific Rim called?
The Ring of Fire
Which type of seismic wave can move through solid layers of the earth but not through the liquid outer core?
"S" wave
What is a seismogram?
The record produced by the seismograph.
What point within the earth is where an earthquake originates?
Focus
Which type of volcano spills thick lava which cools and piles up around the vent? These fragments spill down the sides of the volcano.
Lava Dome
What is a large basin-like depression resulting from the collapse of the center of the volcano?
Caldera
What is the scale, which is numbered 1-10, measures the strength or magnitude of an earthquake?
What is a seismologist?
What happens when a continental plate collides with an oceanic plate?
Subduction occurs and volcanoes are formed
Name one mountain in the United States that we have talked about.
Mt. St Helens, Mt. Hood, Mt. Rainier, Sunset Crater, Lassen Peak
When two oceanic plates meet, one subducts under the other. What forms at this location?
Island Arc
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What is the scale, which is numbered 1-12, that measures an earthquake based on destruction?
Mercalli Scale
What type of fault line matched with the following?
Word Bank: Compression, Shearing, Tension
Normal fault <-- -->
Reverse fault --> <--
Strike-slip fault (slide by side)
Tension
Compression
Shearing