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Earthquake Terms
Earthquakes
Volcano Types
Volcanos
Mixed
100
The point where an earthquake originates.
What is the focus?
100
Earthquake depth at divergent and transform boundaries.
What is shallow?
100
The narrowest type of volcano.
What is ash and cinder?
100
"Ropy" lava.
What is pahoehoe?
100
The fastest earthquake waves.
What are p-waves?
200
A smaller quake before a major earthquake.
What is a foreshock?
200
The amplitude change between a 4.0 and a 5.0 earthquake.
What is 10?
200
A volcano made entirely of lava flows.
What is a shield volcano?
200
Three factors that affect magma composition.
What are magma temperature, viscosity and composition?
200
The common plate boundary for shield volcanoes.
What is divergent?
300
The type of wave that can travel through solids, liquids or gases.
What is a p-wave?
300
The boundary where depths can be shallow, intermediate or deep.
What are convergent boundaries?
300
The type of volcano with the least viscous lava.
What is shield?
300
Any two short term effects of volcanic eruption.
What are: 1. cooling 2. disruption of air travel 3. creation of new land 4. destruction 5. acid precipitation
300
The Hawaiian Island volcano types.
What are shield volcanoes?
400
The scale that measures intensity of an earthquake?
What is the Modiļ¬ed Mercalli scale?
400
The energy difference between a 3.5 and a 5.5 earthquake.
What is 900?
400
The type of volcanism displayed in Yellowstone National Park.
What is intraplate?
400
A description of A'A' lava.
What is jagged and angular?
400
The term for ash and cinder ejected during an eruption.
What is pyroclastic?
500
The wave also known as a shear wave.
What is an s-wave?
500
Earthquakes along the subduction zone are said to happen along this zone.
What is the Wadati-Benioff zone?
500
The typical example of an ash and cinder volcano.
What is Paricutin (Mexico)?
500
An area formed from multiple fissures.
What is a lava plateau?
500
The most destructive earthquake waves.
What are l-wave?