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Volcanoes
Tsunamis
Earthquakes
Your Imminent Doom
Earth's Crust
100
Layers of lava flows, non-explosive
What is a shield volcano?
100
The Boxing Day tsunami had an epicenter off this major island.
What is Sumatra?
100
The point within Earth where faulting begins
What is the is the focus, or hypocenter?
100
Largest tsunami that may swallow you whole and ruin everything in your day.
What is a mega-tsunami?
100
theory that explains how large pieces of the earth’s outermost layer move and change shape
What is plate tectonics?
200
underground pool of liquid rock found beneath the surface of the Earth
What is a magma chamber?
200
a shallow water wave caused by the gravitational interactions between the Sun, Moon, and Earth
What is a tidal wave?
200
Number of quakes strong enough to be felt are recorded each year.
What is 150,000?
200
Leaking reactor from the Fukushima-Daichi Power Plant may mutate pigs and create this species, destined to be humanity's slave masters.
What are orcs?
200
Minerals that compose the inner core.
What are iron and nickel?
300
Islands begin as volcanoes
What are atolls?
300
Most tsunamis generated by this region.
What is the subduction zone?
300
fault which passes through San Francisco Bay where 7 million people live
What is the San Andreas Fault?
300
Very hot lava coming from the dome of the volcano, which burns you alive because you didn't evacuate when told to.
What is pyroclastic flow?
300
two plates move apart
What are Constructive/Divergent Plate Boundaries?
400
Also called a composite volcano Classic volcano look Steeper slopes, narrower bases.
What is a strato-volcano?
400
Meaning of tsunami in Japanese
What is harbor wave?
400
On the Richter Scale, what is the increase in magnitude from a 4.0 earthquake to a 7.0? Earthquakes are logarithmic...
What is 1,000 times greater?
400
The people hate your nasi lemak, so they throw you into a mud volcano because this company had a natural well blow-out.
What is Lapindo?
400
Point of tension between continental and oceanic plates.
What is the subduction zone?
500
Symmetrical, tall cones Steep sides Made of shattered bits of lava
What are cinder cones?
500
4 causes of tsunamis.
What are earthquakes, submarine volcano, coastal/submarine landslide or rock fall, extraterrestrial impact
500
Plate where most earthquakes occur.
What is the Pacific Plate?
500
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What is the magnitude of the Japanese or Boxing Day earthquakes?
500
Explains how energy is stored in rocks.
What is the Elastic Rebound Theory?