This term is used to describe the distance above or below sea level.
Hint: altitude or elevation?
What is elevation?
These funnel shaped pits at the top of a volcanic cone.
What are craters?
This term is the place on the surface of the earth directly above the earthquake.
Hint: the focus or epicenter?
What is the epicenter?
There are more than 500-600 active volcanoes. Where are most volcanoes located on Earth?
Hint: on land or underwater?
Under the oceans.
These types of mountains are formed by the folding of rock layers.
Hint: Folded mountains or Fault-block mountains?
What are folded mountains?
This is the term for magma on the earth's surface. Hint: (not on the inside)
What is lava?
Another term for earthquake waves.
Hint: Seismic waves or sound waves?
What are seismic waves?
The Ring of Fire is dotted by volcanic and earthquake activity underneath this ocean.
The Pacific Ocean
These types of mountains are formed when magma rises through the crust, cools, and hardens.
Hint: Fault-block mountains or Dome mountains?
What are Dome mountains?
This is the term for the types of craters; sometimes they fill with water.
What is a caldera?
The name for the instrument used to detect and measures earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
This country is one example of a volcanic island.
What is Iceland?
This mountain range is located in the eastern United States. It is made up of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Great Smokey Mountain ranges.
What is the Appalachian Mountain range?
True or false: A shield cone is made up of hardened lava.
True!
The types of seismic waves that move the slowest.
Hint: P-waves or surface waves/L-waves?
What are surface waves/L-waves?
This zone of activity is an underwater chain of volcanic mountains.
What is the Mid-Atlantic Range?