The solid that remains after material is thoroughly burned
What is ash?
These are the most dangerous and destructive form of landslide, involving lots of water
What are flows?
This is the the result of an earthquake happening in the middle of the ocean
What is a tsunami?
This is a pointy-shaped mountain peak created when many glaciers erode the same mountain top.
What is a horn?
One reason for this type of flood is combined rainfall and snowmelt
What is river flooding?
A large section of rock that moves slowly when the mantle moves
What are Tectonic Plates?
This volcanic eruption led to the largest landslide known
What is Mount St. Helens?
A Break in the earths crust
What is a Fault?
a "V" shaped river valley eroded by a glacier
What is a till?
This is a landmark as a result of flooding
What is a Floodplain?
The Hawaiian Islands are an example of these long, broad sloping volcanoes
What are Shield Volcanoes?
This is a cause of landslides from roots of trees no longer holding soil in place
What is deforestation?
We can measure this energy that travels through earth in vibrations
What are Seismic Waves?
a chair shaped hollow in the mountainside
What is freeze-thaw weathering?
Another word for when the ground becomes full of water and must rise
What is saturated?
A measurement of how thick or syrupy lava is
What is Viscosity?
a washing out of sediment on a slope
What is mudflow?
A machine that measure the strength and length of an earthquake
This is a long oval shaped hill created by glacial ice movement
What is a Drumlin?
This type of flooding is caused by lack of a dam or levee and infrastructure failure
What is catastrophic flooding?
This Volcano erupted on March 27, 1980 in Washington State
What is Mount St. Helens?
These are sudden movements of large amounts of soil, debris, and rock from slopes or cliffs
What are Falls?
This a famous fault line in California that looks like a scar across the land
What is the San Andreas Fault Line?
This is the longest glacier in the U.S. at 125 miles long in Alaska
What is the Bering Glacier?
A flash flood warning is a weather alert issued by this group
What is the NWS or National Weather Service?