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Earthquakes
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Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
the point directly above the focus
What is a epicenter?
100
The opening in Earth's crust through which molten rock escapes.
What is a volcano?
100
The melted rock beneath Earth's crust.
What is magma?
100
The second wave of movement in an earthquake.
What is a s-wave?
100
Magma once it reaches the surface.
What is lava?
200
The point under the surface where an earthquake originates.
What is the focus?
200
A large ocean wave.
What is a tsunami?
200
Volcanoes are located here.
What is the place where magma reaches the surface?
200
The most destructive type of wave.
What is l-wave?
200
A volcano that is made almost entirely of layer upon layer of lava.
What is a shield volcano?
300
Movements of Earth's crust takes place here.
What is a fault?
300
An instrument that measures the vibrations of Earth's surface during a quake.
What is a seismograph?
300
A volcano with slopes made mostly of rock and ash.
What is cinder cone volcano?
300
A type of fault where the fault blocks move horizontally past one another in opposite directions.
What is a strike-slip fault?
300
The term used to describe a volcano that has erupted recently.
What is dormant?
400
The primary or first wave.
What is a p-wave?
400
A type of mountain that forms where continental plates collide, causing the crust to fold and crumple.
What is a fold mountain?
400
A volcano composed of alternating layers of lava and ash.
What is a composite volcano?
400
A type of fault where one fault block moves down a sloping crack.
What is a normal fault?
400
A term used to describe a volcano that is unlikely to erupt again.
What is extinct?
500
The fault that causes all the earthquakes in California.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
500
Name three types of formations that result from plate motion.
What is volcanoes, earthquakes, and mountain building?
500
The plate boundary where most volcanoes form.
What is a convergent boundary?
500
A type of fault where one fault block moves up a sloping crack as the other moves down.
What is a reverse fault?
500
An example of an island chain.
What is Hawaiian island chain?