Volcano
The liquid inside the volcano.
What is magma?
The country that has the most tornadoes.
What is the United States?
The location where hurricanes form.
What is the ocean?
The location directly above the hypocenter of an earthquake on the surface of the earth.
What is the epicenter?
Two of the events that can cause a tsunami.
What is an earthquake/landslide/volcanic eruption/extraterrestrial collision (name two)?
The origin of the word "vulcan," which became "volcano."
What is the Roman god of fire?
The famous movie in which a tornado takes the protagonist to another world.
What is the Wizard of Oz?
The other two names for hurricanes.
What are typhoons and cyclones?
The pieces of the earth that shift and cause earthquakes.
What are tectonic plates?
True or False: There are tsunami warning systems.
True
A volcano that is neither extinct nor active.
What is a dormant volcano?
The days and times of tornado siren tests in Dexter in the spring.
What is the first Saturday of the month at noon?
The name for the abnormal rising of the water in the ocean near the shore due to a hurricane.
What is a storm surge?
The nickname for the locations of 80% of the world's earthquakes.
What is the "Ring of Fire"?
How frequently tsunami waves can arrive on the shore.
What is every 5 to 60 minutes?
The planet with the largest volcano in our solar system.
What is Mars?
The average number of tornadoes each year.
A) 500, B) 1000, C) 1500, D) 2000
What is B) 1000?
The top speed at which hurricanes can travel.
A) 10 mph, B) 15 mph, C) 20 mph, D) 25 mph
What is up to C) 20 miles per hour?
The most earthquake-prone state in the United States.
What is Alaska?
The speed a tsunami can travel.
A) 300 mph, B) 500 mph, C) 700 mph, D) 900 mph
What is B) 500 miles per hour?
The number of active volcanoes in the world (a multiple of 500).
What is 1500?
The system that classifies tornadoes based on their wind speed.
What is the Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale?
The scale that is used to rate hurricanes.
What is the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale?
The three types of seismic waves.
What are P, S, and surface waves?
The meaning of the word "tsunami."
What is "harbor wave"?