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EARTHQUAKE WAVES
Types of Volcanoes
Earthquake Measurement
Vocabulary
Anything Goes
100
These waves arrive last and rock back and forth.
What are Love waves?
100
This is the most simple  type of volcano that can form over a short period of time.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
100
This is the most current instrument used to measure earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
100
This is the point on the surface of the earth where earthquakes hit.
What is the epicenter?
100
This is how long it takes before a volcano becomes dormant.
What is 10,000 years?
200
These waves can travel faster than the others and can travel through liquids and rocks.
What are P-waves?
200
This is the name for the billowing cloud of ash and debris that comes out of a volcano.
What is a pyroclastic flow?
200
This is the older scale used to measure earthquake magnitude.
What is the Richter Scale?
200
These are the mudflows that occur with composite volcanoes.
What are lahars?
200
These are 3 geologic features that volcanoes form.
What are underwater mountains, above the ground mountains, and islands.?
300
These waves arrive last and make a rolling movement.
What are Raleigh waves?
300
Kilauea, Haleakala, and Mauna Loa are these types of volcanoes.
What are shield volcanoes?
300
This is the paper recording of an earthquake.
What is a seismogram?
300
This is what an earthquake releases.
What is energy?
300
This is the name of a famous composite volcano that erupted in the state of Washington in 1980.
What is Mount St. Helens?
400
These waves travel through rock, arrive after the first wave, and cannot travel through liquids.
What are S-waves?
400
This is a vent with an opening through which magma flows and goes out the surface of the earth. 
What is a volcano?
400
This is the difference in the strength of the earthquake from one point to another.
What is 31 times?
400
This is the place below the surface of the earth where the earthquake hits.
What is the hypocenter?
400
These are four factors that affect the damage that occurs in an earthquake.
What are:

architecture, type of land, population density, magnitude, distance from the epicenter, and distance from the hypocenter.


500
Name the type of wave that a P-wave is and name the type of wave that an S-wave is.
What are compressional/longitudinal and transverse?
500
This is the type of volcano that can create its own storm with lightning.
What is a composite/strato volcano?
500
This is the current system used to measure the strength of an earthquake.
What is the moment magnitude scale?
500
This is what causes the magma to fizz inside a volcano.
What is water and carbon dioxide?
500
The name of the volcano that popped up in a farmer's land in Mexico.
What is Paricutín?