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What is an Earthquake?

What is violent shaking coming from the movement of Earth's plates?

100

What is a volcano?

What is a build up in the Earth's crust where magma reaches the surface?

100
What is a fault?

What is a break in the rock of Earth's crust?

100

What is a Tsunami?

What is a is a large wave produced by an earthquake?

100

What do seismographs measure?

What is the amplitude of earthquakes?

200

What do "P Waves" mean?

What are Primary Waves?

200

What are the three different types of volcanoes in terms of size and shape?

What are Stratovolcanoes, Cinder Cone volcanoes, and Shield Volcanoes?

200

What kind of fault does compression produce?

What is a Reverse Fault?

200

Where do tsunamis occur in the USA?

What is the Western US. coast?

200

When facing a tsunami head on it looks like what?

What is a wall of water?

300

What are the three kinds of stress?

What are Tension, Compression, and Shearing?

300

What are the three different types of volcanoes in terms of activity?

What are active, dormant, and extinct volcanoes? 

300

A Strike-Slip Fault is a result of what kind of stress?

What is Sheering?

300

Landslides cause tsunamis. (True or False)

What is True?

300

What does sheering stress cause?

What are strike-slip faults?

400

What is the interval increase in the Magnitude Scale?

What is an increase of 32 times?

400

What is the name of the place where magma is stored before reaching the surface?

What is the magma chamber?

400

What makes a hanging wall and a foot wall different?

What is a footwall on a normal fault is at the top while a hanging wall is at the bottom, vice versa for a reverse fault?

400

How does stress cause tsunamis?

What are releases of tension?

400

Ocean floor uplift is known as what?

What is a landslide?

500

What is the number of earthquakes that Michigan experiences per year?

What is about 5 earthquakes?

500

What was the about furthest distance away that people heard Krakatoa's famous eruption?

What is about 2,800 miles away?

500

What are synclines?

What are the valley areas next to mountains?

500

Most tsunamis come from what geological occurrence?

What are shifting faults?

500

Is the San Andreas Fault made up of one fault OR many faults?

What are many faults?