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This Molten Rock is found beneath the earth's surface.
What is Magma
100
What Earthquakes that happen on the moon.
What are Moon Quakes
100
The worlds deadliest earthquake occurred in this country.
What is China.
100
What are tectonic plates
Puzzle pieces that keep slowly moving around, sliding past one another and bumping into each other.
100
The Iceland Volcano had this many phases.
What is two phases.
200
This type of volcano is made of fluid lava flows and are they type which make up the Hawaiian Islands.
What is a Shield Volcano.
200
how an earthquake's size is measured
Magnitude
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The magnitude of the Prince Williams sound earthquake was this number.
What is 9.2 .
200
What are plate boundaries
Edges of tectonic plates
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when magma leaks out onto the surface passively as lava flows.
What is effusive eruption?
300
The most explosive volcanoes contain lava with lots of dissolved gases and this viscosity.
What is High Viscosity.
300
What is the most earthquake prone state?
Alaska
300
This famous mountain erupted in 2010.
What is Eyjafjallajökull.
300
What are the three types of plate movement?
Divergent, Convergent, Transform
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What is the difference between magma and lava?
magma is molten rock beneath the surface, lave is the molten rock that is above the surface.
400
These Volcanoes are no longer erupting but scientists believe they will again.
What are Dormant Volcanoes.
400
What is considered a minor or light earthquake?
A quake measuring 3 to 5
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Where and when was the largest earthquake recorded?
chile may 22, 1960
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What are transform-fault boundaries
When two plates slide horizontally past each other
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What is the range of the gas temperatures of a pyroclastic flow?
100-800 degres celsius
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A passage in which magma travels from the magma chamber and up through the volcano.
What is a Conduit?
500
What is the cause of an earthquake?
when rock underground suddenly breaks along a fault
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This was the most destructive volcanic eruption in US history.
What is Mt. St. Helen.
500
What are two ways to make earthquake-resistant buildings?
Flexible or rigid
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What is a pyroclastic flow?
a fluidized mix of rock, ash and gases.
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