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Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Grab Bag
100
These are formed when rocks change shape by breaking.
What are faults?
100
Long cracks caused when plates separate.
What are rifts?
100
Rocks that have strained, broken, and snapped back into position.
What is elastic rebound?
100
When magma flows onto Earth's surface.
What is lava?
100
The lead singer of the band Pearl Jam.
Who is Eddie Vedder?
200
The point in the Earth where an earthquake occurs.
What is the focus?
200
Large bodies of magma that may be responsible for forming the Hawaiian Islands.
What are hot spots?
200
When rocks are pulled apart.
What is a normal fault?
200
The largest type of volcano.
What are shield volcanoes.
200
Mr. McCann's wife.
Who is Janell?
300
The measurement unit the Richter scale uses.
What is magnitude?
300
The slowest and largest seismic waves.
What are surface waves?
300
When rocks are sheared.
What is a strike-slip fault?
300
Fragmented materials produced by a volcanic eruption.
What is tephra?
300
Hot dogs, McDonald's hamburgers, and cold pizza.
What are foods Mr. McCann has never eaten?
400
The instrument that records seismic waves.
What is a seismograph?
400
The fastest seismic waves.
What are primary waves?
400
When rocks are compressed.
What is a reverse fault?
400
Volcanoes with eruptions high in gas content.
What are cinder cone volcanoes?
400
The month that Pearl Jam's next concert in Illinois is in.
What is October?
500
Seismic waves that can cause huge waves at the shoreline.
What are tsunamis?
500
Waves that cause particles to vibrate at right angles to the direction of the waves.
What are secondary waves?
500
When a building is made to withstand an earthquake.
What is seismic safe?
500
A volcano in Washington State which erupted in 1980.
What is Mt. St. Helens?
500
The number of earrings Mr. McCann used to have.
What is 5?