Types Of Volcanoes
Types Of Faults Quiz
Volcano Vocabulary
Earthquake Reading/Prediction?
Miscellaneous Earthquakes
100
Large, steep-sided, symmetrical cones
What is Stratovolcano?
OR
What is Composite Volcano?
100
What is a normal fault?
100
An outpour of molten rock on to the earth's surface from the vent, results in hardened rock
What is a lava flow?
100
The study of earthquake waves
What is seismology?
100
The source of an earthquake from underground
What is the focus?
200
Gas-charged lava, cinders, cone shape, most have a bowl shaped crater.
What is Cinder Cones?
200
What is a reverse fault?
200
An opening on the earth's surface from which molten rock, or lava, ash, and cinders erupt from
What is a vent?
200
Instruments that record earthquake waves
What are seismographs?
200
Measures shaking in a certain location
What is intensity?
300
Built almost entirely of liquid lava flows, broad, flat cone of lava.
What is shield volcanoes?
300
What is a strike-slip fault?
300
A pyroclast hurled from a volcano during eruption, and was partly molten for some of its flight
What is a lava bomb?
300
Recordings of earthquake waves
What are seismograms?
300
The point on the surface directly above the focus, or source of the earthquake underground
What is the epicenter?
400
Formed by small masses of lava too thick to flow very far, a bulge shape, grows when it shatters.
What is lava domes?
400
Which wall is always above the fault?
What is the hanging wall?
(its hanging above the fault)
400
Fine fragments of volcanic rock formed in eruption
What is ash?
400
Greatest Velocity waves, travel through solids, liquids, and gasses, push pull waves that expand and compress in the direction of the wave travel
What are P-waves?
(primary waves)
400
Measures energy released at the center of the earthquake
What is magnitude?
500
Forms from explosive eruptions, bowl shaped, bigger than craters but similar.
What is a caldera?
500
Which wall is always below the fault?
What is the foot wall?
500
Flows of pyroclast that move rapidly down the slopes of a volcano
What is pyroclastic flow?
500
Travel only through solids, slower than P-waves
What are S-waves?
(secondary)
500
Scale used to measure the magnitude of the earthquake
What is the moment magnitude scale?