Volcanoes Vocab
The tallest and most destructive volcano
What is Stratovolcano
Hawaii is the cause of this
What is Hotspot
The border around the pacific plate where 75% of volcanoes are and 90% of earthquakes are.
What is Ring of Fire
How we know the layers of the earth
What is earthquake
How an earthquake is normally formed
What is plate tectonics
Forms after a volcano collapses on itself after releasing almost all of its magma
What is caldera
The volcano that produced the loudest sound on earth in 1883 in Indonesia.
What is Krakatoa
The type of fault that The San Andreas fault is
What is strike slip fault
The focus but on the surface of the earth
What is Epicenter
The study of earthquakes
What is Seismology
The ash, lapilli, and bomb/ small rocks that slide down a volcano during an eruption
What is Tephra
The volcano that covered the U.S in dust
What is the yellow stone volcano
This is caused by Earthquakes and one of the biggest hit Japan.
What is Tsunami
The full name for waves that can not travel through liquid. Also known as shear waves
What is Secondary Waves
The Tool used to measure ground movement before and during earthquakes
What is Seismograph
When lava cools forming a plug on the lava tube
What is Lava Dome
The reason why some volcanoes have more explosive lava than other volcanoes
What is the amount of silica
how much time between when old faithful spits out water
What is 90 Minutes
in this type of stress the hanging wall is lower than the foot wall. What type of fault is this?
What is Reverse Fault
What does MW mean?
What is Moment Magnitude scale
How scientist know when a volcano erupted and how powerful it was before humans existed
What is Ice Rings
Pronounce Eyjafjallajökull
What is ay-yuff-yaat-laa-yoo-kull
What type of eruption was Yellowstone
What is VEI 8 or Mega-colossal eruption
The name of the earthquake that started the U.S.G.S and Tsunami warning and many more organizations
What is The Great Alaska Earthquake
The level that you can start to feel earthquakes
What is Magnitude 2.5