Landslides
What is a landslide?
A landslide is when a large amount of loose rock and soil moves rapidly.
What happens when plates in the Earth's crust shift suddenly?
Earthquakes!
True or False: All volcanoes explode when they erupt.
False!
Storms, fires, earthquakes, thawing, freezing, people building in places where landslides are known to happen, etc.
What is a tsunami?
A tsunami is a giant ocean wave.
What is the difference between a dormant volcano and an extinct volcano?
A dormant volcano is one that has not erupted in a long time but it might again; an extinct volcano will never erupt again.
What is gravity?
A pulling force that acts on all objects.
What causes a tsunami?
Earthquakes on the ocean floor.
What is the difference between magma and lava?
Lava is magma that has reached Earth's surface.
What types of disasters should you expect during heavy rains/storms?
Floods, mudslides, and landslides.
What is the slow movement along fault lines called?
Creep
A place where magma partially melts through Earth's crust and forms volcanoes/islands.
Hot spot.
What is the difference between a landslide and a mudslide?
Where do most earthquakes happen?
Name THREE types of volcanoes.
Cinder cone, strata cone or composite, and shield.