What is an Earthquake?
What is violent shaking coming from the movement of Earth's plates?
What is a volcano?
What is a build up in the Earth's crust where magma reaches the surface?
What is a break in the rock of Earth's crust?
What is a Tsunami?
What is a is a large wave produced by an earthquake?
What do seismographs measure?
What is the amplitude of earthquakes?
What do "P Waves" mean?
What are Primary Waves?
What are the three different types of volcanoes in terms of size and shape?
What are Stratovolcanoes, Cinder Cone volcanoes, and Shield Volcanoes?
What kind of fault does compression produce?
What is a Reverse Fault?
Where do tsunamis occur in the USA?
What is the Western US. coast?
When facing a tsunami head on it looks like what?
What is a wall of water?
What are the three kinds of stress?
What are Tension, Compression, and Shearing?
What are the three different types of volcanoes in terms of activity?
What are active, dormant, and extinct volcanoes?
A Strike-Slip Fault is a result of what kind of stress?
What is Sheering?
Landslides cause tsunamis. (True or False)
What is True?
What does sheering stress cause?
What are strike-slip faults?
What is the interval increase in the Magnitude Scale?
What is an increase of 32 times?
What is the name of the place where magma is stored before reaching the surface?
What is the magma chamber?
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?
How does stress cause tsunamis?
What are releases of tension?
Ocean floor uplift is known as what?
What is a landslide?
What is the number of earthquakes that Michigan experiences per year?
What is about 5 earthquakes?
What was the about furthest distance away that people heard Krakatoa's famous eruption?
What is about 2,800 miles away?
What are synclines?
What are the valley areas next to mountains?
Most tsunamis come from what geological occurrence?
What are shifting faults?
Is the San Andreas Fault made up of one fault OR many faults?
What are many faults?