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Seismic waves
Volcano
Earthquakes
Miscellaneous
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A seismic wave.
What is energy that travels as vibrations on and in earth.
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Tiny practicals of pulverized volcanic rack and ash.
What is volcanic ash
100
Vibrations caused by the rupture and sudden movement of rock along a break or crack in Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake
100
Molten rock that erupts on to Earth's surface.
What is lava
200
An Earthquake.
What is a series on seismic waves.
200
A vent in Earth's crust through which molten rock flows.
What is a Volcano
200
The location on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus.
What is an epecenter
200
Molten rock stored beneath Earth's surface.
What is magma
300
The sudden breaking of rock within the earth or an explosion.
What is the cause of seismic waves.
300
A large volcano with gentle slopes of basaltic lavas, common along divergent plate boundaries and oceanic hotspots.
What is a shield volcano
300
A location inside earth where seismic waves originate and rocks first move along a fault and from which seismic waves originate.
What is focus
300
A location where volcanoes form far from plate boundaries.
What is a hot spot
400
Body waves through Earth and its surface.
What is the most powerful seismic wave
400
A large, steep sided, volcano that results from explosive eruptions of andesitic and rhyolitic lavas along convergent plate boundaries.
What is a composite volcano
400
A scientist that studies earthquakes.
What is a sismologist
400
Basaltic Magma produces nonexplosive eruptions such as those at...
What is Kilauea
500
It recorded seismic waves.
What is a seismograph.
500
A small, steep sided, volcano that erupts gas rich, basaltic lava.
What is a cinder cone volcano
500
An instrument that measures and records ground motion and can be used to determine the distances the seismic waves travels
What is a seismometer
500
The world most active volcano.
What is Kilauea in Hawaii