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Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Location
100
Type of force that causes a strike-slip fault.
What is a shear force?
100
The fastest waves
What are primary waves?
100
An avalanche of hot glowing rocks and ash flowing on hot gases.
What is a pyroclastic flow?
100
The largest volcano.
What is a shield volcano?
100
Place on Earth's surface located directly above the focus.
What is the epicenter?
200
The fault caused by compression forces.
What is a reverse fault?
200
Waves that cause the most damage.
What are surface waves?
200
The molten material that flows onto Earth's surface.
What is lava?
200
Due to an earthquake changes in predator and prey relationships can cause this.
What is either a decrease in carrying capacity, biotic potential birth and death rates, or movement of populations out of the area?
200
Oceanic plate slides under a continental plate at this plate boundary.
What is a convergent boundary?
300
The Sierra Nevada Mountains are examples of this.
What is a Normal Fault?
300
Waves that are the slowest.
What are surface waves?
300
Results of the denser Pacific plate meeting less dense continental plates, causing subduction and magma to rise.
What are volcanoes clustered around a ring of fire?
300
Type of eruption that occurs when very fluid magma oozes from cracks in the Earth's surface.
What is a fissure eruption?
300
Boundary where shield volcanoes are found.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
400
The boundary where a strike-slip fault occurs.
What is a transform boundary?
400
Waves that cause rock particles to vibrate in a parallel direction as wave is moving.
What are primary waves?
400
Places located in the interior of tectonic plates where magma rises to the surface.
What are hot spots?
400
Bits of rock or solidified lava that falls from the air after a volcanic eruption.
What is tephra?
400
A long crack where plates diverge.
What is a rift?
500
The fault where the rock above the fault moves up.
What is a reverse fault?
500
Waves that cause rock particles to vibrate in a perpendicular direction to the direction the wave is moving.
What are secondary waves?
500
The two ingredients in magma that cause volcanic eruptions.
What are silica and water vapor?
500
Volcanoes with violent and short-lived eruptions.
What are cinder cone volcanoes?
500
Composite volcanoes are found at these boundaries.
What are convergent plate boundaries?