Earthquakes Random
Volcanoes Random
Types of volcanoes
Seismo-words
Plate Boundaries
100
Earthquakes cause this natural disaster, that forms in the ocean.
What are tsunamis?
100
This is the storage tank for the lava in a volcano.
What is a magma chamber?
100
This type of volcano is steep sided and has explosive eruptions.  
What are composite volcanoes?
100
This is the study of earthquakes.
What is seismology?
100
This boundary occurs when two plates slide past each other.
What are transform plate boundaries?
200
This is the highest force of Earthquake on the Richter scale
What is ten on the Richter scale?
200
These are the pulverized volcanic rock and glass that float in the air when a volcano erupts.
What is ash?
200
These volcanoes are steep sided and erupt gas and basaltic lava.
What are composite volcanoes?
200
This is the scientist that studies earthquake.
What are seismologists?
200
This boundary occurs when two plates move apart from each other.
What are divergent plate boundaries?
300
This is the first wave scientists record.
What are P-waves?
300
This is lava before it is erupted.
What is magma?
300
These volcanoes have gentle slopes and erupt basaltic lava.
What are shield volcanoes?
300
This is the machine that measures and records earthquakes.
What are seismographs?
300
These plate boundaries occur when two plate go towards each other.
What are convergent plate boundaries?
400
These are the second waves that scientists record.
What are S-waves?
400
This is magma when it is erupted.
What is lava?
400
These have  a giant crater in the middle. An example of this is Yellowstone national park.
What are caldera volcanoes?
400
This is the printed out a graph of an earthquake.  
What are seismograms?
400
This is a volcano that occurs far away from plate boundaries.
What is a hot spot?
500
This type of fault causes the biggest type of earthquake.
What is a strike slip fault?
500
This is the volcanic eruption that consists of lapilli, lava bombs and ash.
What are pyroclastic eruptions?
500
This volcano forms a fissure.
What are fissure volcanoes? 
500
This is another term for a seismograph.
What is a seismometer?
500
This happens when one less dense plate goes under the other denser plate.
What is a subduction zone?