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Stress
Faults
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Vocabulary
100
This works over millions of years to change the shape and volume of rock.
What is stress?
100
Convergent plate boundaries create this type of fault.
What is reverse faults?
100
A sudden movement in Earth's crust that releases energy.
What is an earthquake?
100
A weak spot in the crust where molten material comes to the surface.
What is a volcano?
100
A volcano that is erupting or has signs of erupting in the near future.
What is an active volcano?
200
This type of stress squeezes rock together.
What is compression?
200
This type of fault has little to none motion in vertical but a lot of motion in the horizontal.
What is strike-slip fault?
200
These occur after the earthquake and continue to shake the ground.
What is an aftershock?
200
Volcanoes produce this type of rock.
What is extrusive rock
200
The bowl-shaped area that forms at the top of the volcano around the central vent.
What is crater?
300
Earthquakes are created because this type of stress was added to the rock.
What is shearing?
300
The location of most faults, due to the areas geologic activity?
What are plate boundaries?
300
The order of seismic waves by arrival time.
What is P-wave, S-Wave, Surface wave?
300
The location of most volcanoes.
What is plate boundaries?
300
The area on the curst where earthquakes are felt most intense.
What is the epicenter?
400
When enough stress is added to rock it breaks creates this.
What are faults?
400
The footwall is above the hanging wall in this type of fault.
What are normal faults?
400
The number of seismograph stations needed to locate an earthquake.
What is 3?
400
The Hawaiian islands are formed by this.
What is a hot spot?
400
When an earthquake shakes the soil into liquid mud.
What is liquefaction?
500
Rift Valleys were created because of this type of stress.
What is tension?
500
The name of the most famous fault line in California.
What is the San Andres fault?
500
The type of energy stored in the rock. This energy is added due to shearing stress.
What is potential energy?
500
The name of the volcanic belt that is around the pacific plate.
What is Ring of Fire?
500
The rating of an earthquake's magnitude based on the size of the earthquakes seismic waves.
What is the Richter Scale?