Volcanoes
Tsunamis
Layers of the Earth
Random Mix
Plate Tectonics
100
This volcano has a gentle slope, is nonexplosive, and the lava is runny and spreads over a wide area.
What is a shield volcano?
100
What language does the word Tsunami come from.
Japanese - it means tidal/harbor wave.
100
This is the hottest part of the Earth and is considered a hot solid iron ball.
What is the inner core?
100
What was the name of the supercontinent that was formed millions of years ago?
What is pangaea
100
Convergent, Divergent, and Transform are types of this.
What are tectonic plate boundaries?
200
This volcano is explosive with pyroclastic flow and has a short lifespan (slope is around 500 meters).
What is a Cinder Cone Volcano?
200
What region has the highest number of tsunamis?
The Ring of Fire
200
This is the outer layer of Earth and is about 50 km thick.
What is the crust?
200
What percentage of the earth is covered in water?
a. 50%
b. 60%
c. 70%
d. 80%
What is 70%?
200
This is the scientist who thought of Pangaea (the idea of all the continents being once joined in a single huge continent).
Bonus: The hypothesis of continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations. +100
Who is Alfred Wegener?
Bonus: What is the Continental Drift?
300
This volcano has a long lifespan, the explosions have the greatest damage including pyroclastic flow and lava, and has a height of about 1,000-4,000 meters.
What is a Composite Volcano?
300
True or false: the first wave of the tsunami is the most powerful.
False: The first wave of a tsunami is usually not the strongest, successive waves get bigger and stronger.[3
300
This is made up of iron and nickel and has a liquid molten rock formation.
What is the outer core?
300
The two tectonic plates that Victoria is situated on.
What is Juan de Fuca and Pacific Plate.
300
The process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises toward the surface and solidifies.
What is Sea Floor Spreading?
400
This is a body of molten rock deep underground that feeds a volcano.
What is the Magma Chamber?
400
What are 3 things that could cause a tsunami wave to occur?
Earthquake, volcano, landslides, and sometimes meteors.
400
This is the widest section of Earth and contains convection currents.
What is the mantle?
400
Mt. Saint Helens in Oregon, USA is an example of which type of volcano?
What is strato/composite volcano.
400
This is a chain of underwater mountains that runs through the center of the Atlantic Ocean and where sea floor spreading takes place.
What is the Mid-Ocean Ridge?
500
This is the term for how lava flows and affects the surface of lava in different ways.
What is Viscosity?
500
At approximately what speed can tsunami waves travel at?
Up to 500miles/800km per hour - similar to a jet airplane.
500
This layer of the mantle is very rocky and solid and is the upper layer (closest to the crust).
What is the Lithosphere?
500
The eruption of this volcano was one of the deadliest in recorded history. It occurred in Indonesia in 1883.
What is Krakatoa.
500
When a plate with oceanic crust collides with a plate with continental crust, and the oceanic crust sinks into the asthenosphere.
What is a subduction zone?