Movement
Creation of Hawaii
Quick Facts
Volcanoes and Earthquakes
Damage
100
This is what happens when plates smash together.
What is an earthquake?
100
These are places of extreme volcanic activity.
What are hotspots.
100
This is the scale that is used to measure earthquakes.
What is the Ritcher Scale?
100
The volcano threw up lava is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
100
These are enormous ocean waves.
What are tsunamis?
200
This term describes continents spreading out.
What is continental drift?
200
This is what you would see if you fly over Hawaii.
What are green islands?
200
Earthquakes and volcanoes can cause these.
What are sudden changes in Earth's surface.
200
This is the result of 2 plates pushing together?
What is earthquake?
200
This volcano destroyed Pompeii.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
300
This is a huge wave that is caused by plates moving over each other.
What is tsunami?
300
These two materials created the Hawaiian islands
What are water and lava.
300
Name the location and year of when an earthquake rocked a professional baseball game.
What is Candlestick Park in 1989?
300
This is the name for lava before it comes out of earth's surface.
What is magma?
300
This is the number of people who died in the 1989 earthquake.
What is 60 people?
400
These actions occur on earth's crust.
What is plates move away from each other and run into each other.
400
Pacific plate is an example of this types of figurative language.
What is alliteration.
400
These are waves that travel out from an earthquake's focus in all directions.
What are seismic waves?
400
Besides lava, this two things also come out of volcanoes.
What are gas and ash?
400
This is the month, day, and year of the earthquake that happened near Candlestick Park.
What is October 17, 1989?
500
These types of volcanoes are formed when magma rises through the cracks in volcanoes.
What are rift volcanoes.
500
These are some effects of volcanoes on Hawaii.
What are destroyed buildings, lives lost, new land, gases released.
500
These are four forces that can make changes to the Earth's surface.
What are weathering, erosion, earthquakes and volcanoes?
500
These people study earthquakes.
What are seismologists?
500
This robot helps find people in the destruction of earthquakes.
What is the pipe crawling robot?
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