Know Your Volcano
Not My Fault
Just My Seismograph
Quakes & Waves
Do You Remember?
100
Volcanoes are formed when this pushes through the crust onto the surface.
What is magma?
100
A fault is a crack in this.
What is a plate?
100
These cause the pen to scribble on a seismograph.
What are vibrations (accept earthquake waves or earthquakes)?
100
The name for a large underwater shockwave.
What is a tsunami?
100
The name for the area of high seismic and volcanic activity that circles the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
200
This serves as a pathway from the mantle to the crust and allows magma to move up and out of the vent.
What is a tube?
200
The San Andreas fault in California is an example of this type.
What is a strike-slip fault?
200
These waves move the slowest of all three waves.
What are Surface or L-waves?
200
Energy waves travel out in this/these directions from the focus.
What is all directions?
200
Currents caused by rising hot liquid/gas and falling cool liquid/gas.
What are convection currents?
300
This volcano, located in Italy, killed the 16,000 inhabitants of Pompeii.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
300
True or False: Only one side of a fault moves
What is true?
300
This was invented to measure the energy released by an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
300
The definition of epicenter.
What is the point on the surface of the ground directly above the focus?
300
The three main layers of the Earth.
What are the core, mantle, and crust?
400
The smallest type and the largest type of volcano.
What are cinder cones (smallest) and shield (largest)?
400
The motion that takes place during a thrust fault.
What is one plate moving up and over the stationary plate?
400
The speed at which primary waves travel.
What is 50,000 km/hr or 28,000 mph?
400
The speed at which underwater shock waves may travel across the ocean.
What is 400 mph or 600 KPH?
400
The theory that explained HOW the continents moved.
What is sea-floor spread?
500
These are three types of rock formed when lava cools.
What are granite, obsidian, and pumice?
500
The Rift Valley of Africa is an example of this fault.
What is normal?
500
Scientists use seismographs to measure these two qualities of an earthquake.
What are its size and location?
500
The height of the largest measured tidal waves.
What is 130 ft or 40 meters?
500
The four movements of that we studied.
What are rotation, revolution, solar system through galaxy, and galaxy through universe?
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