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Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Earth
vocabulary
More about Earthquakes and volcanoes
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Vibration, shake and rattle to the earths surface releasing stored energy?
What is an earthquake?
100
Crust and upper core of the earths mantle.
What is lithosphere?
100
Layers of hardened lava
What is tephra?
100
Earth heats and rises to earths surface creating a_____.
What is hot spring?
200
Breaks in the earth's surface along which rock can move.
What are faults?
200
Location of most volcanoes.
What is Ring of Fire?
200
The idea that the earth's crust is made of moving plates.
What is Plate tectonics?
200
Types of eruptions that occur in volcanoes.
What are strombolian, vulcanian, Pelean, Plinian, Hawaiian. eruptions?
200
Scale that measures the magnitude or strength of the seismic waves of an earthquake.
What is Richter Scale?
300
This occurs where rocks push together until they force a section of the rock upward.
What is reverse fault?
300
Crack in the earth's crust allows magma and gases to come to the surface.
What is a volcano?
300
Mantle, crust, inner core and outer core.
What are main parts of the earth?
300
The large, symmetrical cone-shaped volcano.
What is a composite cone volcano?
300
P wave, s wave , love wave, rayleigh wave.
What are types of earthquake waves?
400
Rocks move apart and a section of the rock falls between the separating rocks.
What is a normal fault?
400
Gradually sloping sides and look like upside down saucers.
What is a shield volcano?
400
Upper area of the mantle, consistes of large pieces that fload on partly melted rock.
What are plates?
400
volcanoes produce this as magma and lava cool and harden.
What is igneous rock?
400
Hot spring that contains more mud than water?
What is mud pot?
500
Rocks move horizontally past each other, the San Andreas Fault in California is one of these types of faults.
What is a Strike-Slip fault?
500
A volcano that resembles a hill.
What is cinder cone volcano?
500
Places where the plates meet?
What are plate boundaries?
500
The effects of volcanoes.
What are vog, debris flow, weather change, acid rain, and health risks.
500
Detects and measures the movement of the earth.
What is a seismograph?