Hot Spots
This is the only hot spot in the middle of a continent.
What is Yellowstone?
This is the biggest type of volcano.
What is a Stratovolcano/composite volcano?
This is what mainly comes out of a volcano.
What is Lava?
This scale was developed in the 1930s it was good for the small earthquakes but not as accurate for the bigger ones.
What is the Richter scale?
An earthquake can trigger this natural disaster.
What is a tsunami?
This hot spot is a chain of islands in the middle of the pacific.
What is Hawaii?
This is the outer ring of a volcano that collapsed on itself.
What is a caldera?
This is what is at the top of a volcano.
What is the Crater?
What are the three main types of faults that cause earthquakes.
What are Normal fault, Reverse fault, and Strike-slip fault?
This major fault line runs roughly 800 miles through California and is the boundary between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates.
What is the San Andres Fault?
This hot spot is located in a triangle 676 miles off the coast of Florida.
What is the Bermuda hot spot?
These volcanos are made up of small bits of old eruptions. (cinders)
What is a cinder cone?
This ejecta comes at you at approximately 200 miles per hour and destructs everything in its way. This can also travel over water.
What is Pyroclastic Flow?
This is the point on earth's surface directly above where the earthquake began.
What is the epicenter?
This volcanic eruption was and is the loudest sound ever recorded.
What is Krakatoa?
A Christian holiday in April shares a name with this hot spot.
What is the Easter island hot spot?
These volcanos have quote on quote domes on them.
What are lava domes?
This place is where all the lava is held underground, when this drains it creates a caldera.
What is the Magma Chamber?
These seismic waves are the fastest and first to be detected by seismographs.
What are primary waves (P-waves)?
This volcano’s 1980 eruption in Washington State reduced its height by over 1,300 feet and caused the largest landslide in recorded history.
What is mount St. Helens?
This hot spot is located 600 miles of the coast of Ecuador.
What is the Galapagos hot spot?
These are the volcanos on the Hawaiian islands.
What are shield volcanos?
This is mud or debris flow.
What is Lahar?
This 2010 earthquake devastated which Carrabin nation killing over 200,000 people.
What is Haiti?
This volcano's name means child of Krakatoa.
What is Anak Krakatau?