Volcanoes
These volcanoes are not not so steep and emit quiet eruptions.
What are shield volcanoes?
This area in the US is most vulnerable to earthquakes.
What is the west coast of the US?
This type of fault occurs when plates are moving away from one another. (not divergent)
What is a normal fault?
These waves cause the most damage, and are the slowest of the waves.
What are surface waves?
This happens to volcanoes as they move away from a hot spot.
What is they become dormant or extinct?
These American islands were formed over a hot spot.
What are the Hawaiian Islands?
Earthquakes most frequently occur here.
What are plate boundaries?
This type of fault occurs when plates move toward one another. (not convergent)
What is a reverse fault?
This wave travels the deepest into the center of Earth.
What is a primary or P-wave?
These faults were voted "least likely to create mountains" in the WCMS yearbook.
What are strike-slip faults?
These positive effects are the result of volcanic eruptions.
What is the enrichment of rocks and soil from valuable nutrients?
Earthquakes originate here,and are first felt here. (two answers)
What are the focus and epicenter?
This type of fault occurs when plates slide horizontally past one another in opposite directions.
What is a strike-slip fault?
These waves will stop when they hit the liquid outer core of the earth.
What are secondary waves?
These people, who study earthquakes, like to be referred to as this.
What is a seismologist?
This effect to the climate is the result of volcanic eruptions.
What is a decrease in temperature?
The deepest earthquakes occur at these plate boundaries.
What are convergent boundaries?
The rock above the fault surface moves upward in relation to rock below the fault surface ...in this fault.
What is a reverse fault?
These waves are the first to register on a seismograph.
What are primary waves?
This forms when the top of a volcano has collapsed.
What is a caldera?
These factors determine whether a volcanic eruption will be quiet or explosive.
What are the amount of water vapor and gases trapped in the magma?
This scale measures the damage done by an earthquake.
What is the Mercalli scale?
A fault can be described as a break in this sphere?
What is the lithosphere?
Waves from the Japan tsunami reached this height.
What is 124 feet above sea level?
This type of volcano is usually shaped the way most people picture a volcano,because of its steep sides and violent eruptions.
What is a cinder-cone volcano?