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Faults
Earthquakes
Mountains
Volcanoes
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100
What are the 3 types of faults
What is Normal, Reverse, and Strike-Slip
100
The place where most earthquakes occur
What is along tectonic plate boundaries
100
The type of mountain range made when two plates collide
What is folded mountain range?
100
Molten rock before it reaches Earth's surface
What is Magma?
100
Where most volcanoes form (in general)
What is at boundaries of Earth's plate. (The ring of fire is at different boundaries)
200
What kind of fault is represented by: --><-- and what kind of boundary is it associated with
What is Reverse Fault; Convergent
200
The name of where the Earthquake is located (underground)
What is the focus
200
Mountains formed by blocks of rock along faults
What is fault-block mountains?
200
Where are shield volcanoes formed in the United States
Where is Hawaii?
200
If there are small earthquakes around a volcano this is likely to happen
What is the volcano is about to erupt?
300
What kind of fault is represented by <-- --> and what kind of boundary is it associated with?
What is normal fault; divergent boundary
300
The point on Earth's surface directly above the focus
What is the epicenter. (This is also how the Earthquake is named)
300
The way you tell what mountains are older.
What is rounded edges (old mountains are rounder because of erosion and weathering; younger mountains still have pointy rough edges)
300
An example of caldera
What is Crater Lake in Oregon
300
High levels of Silica will have this type of eruption
What is an explosive eruption?
400
The fault does NOT make mountains... why?
What is Strike-slip fault; because it only has horizontal movement.
400
The 3 types of waves and their abbreviations
What is Primary wave (P), Secondary wave (S), and Surface Wave (L)
400
An example of folded mountains
What are the Himalayas?
400
The 3 different volcanoes types.
What is shield (low and broad), cinder cone (made out of cinders, composite (made out of lava, cinders, ash, and bombs)
400
A hot dense cloud of gas and rock fragments that race down the hill (more dangerous than lava)
What is a pyroclastic flow?
500
Name a Fault located in California
What is San Andreas Fault
500
The instrument used to record seismic waves
What is Seismograph?
500
An Example of fault-block mountains
What are the Sierra Nevada Mountains?
500
Low silica flows through cracks because
What is because it is less dense than surrounding materials
500
made of of rock particles and is the size of grains of sand
What is volcanic ash?