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Large, flat areas often used for agriculture, often found in the middle of Canada
What is a plain
100
The surface along which rocks break and move
What is a fault
100
The way scientists describe the magnitude of an earthquake
What is the Richter scale
100
Volcanoes that are not active
What is dormant volcanoes?
100
Three types of seismic waves produced during an earthquake
What is primary, secondary and surface
200
This can be found at the north end of the Nile
What is a Delta
200
The place where an earthquake begins
What is the focus
200
The machine used to measure earthquakes
What is a seismograph
200
Smallest of three types of volcanoes
What is cinder cone volcanoes
200
Volcanoes that encircle the Pacific Ocean are located in this zone
What is the Ring of Fire
300
The final stage in the process of erosion
What is deposition?
300
Primary waves can travel through these
What is solids, liquids and gases
300
When soil under a building acts like liquid
What is liquefaction
300
Volcano that is the largest in area
What is shield volcanoes
300
Three types of volcanoes
What is cinder cone, shield, composite
400
Three examples of sudden changes to the earth's surface
What is Earthquake, Volcano, and Landslide
400
Two types of faults
What is a normal fault, reverse fault, or a strike slip/transform fault
400
The number of seismograph stations needed to determine the location of an epicentre
What is three
400
This clean type of energy is the most common method of heating house in Iceland
What is geothermal energy
400
Earthquakes occur when this is released along a fault
What is stress
500
Three features created by glacial erosion and glacial deposition.
What is moraine, cirque, horn, arete, or U-shaped valley
500
When primary waves are refracted and do not come through on the other side of earth.
What is a shadow zone.
500
The plate off British Columbia where major earthquakes occur
What is the Juan de Fuca plate
500
What the division of eras is based on
What is geologic events and fossil record of the appearance and disappearance of living things
500
Two places volcanoes occur
What is at boundaries of tectonic plates and above hot spots