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Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Faults
Mountains
Miscellaneous
100
Type of volcano that is composed of layers of ash and lava
What is a composite volcano
100
The point where the earthquake started deep underground
What is the focus
100
Movement along faults typically causes...
What is earthquakes
100
Plate boundary where mountains can occur
What is convergent
100
Lava that cools in the air and falls down as small piece of rock
What is tephra
200
Type of volcano that occurs away from plate boundaries
What is hot spot volcano
200
The type of wave that does the most damage to the crust
What is surface wave
200
The block that is positioned over the fault
What is the hanging wall
200
Type of mountain formed by uplift within the Earth
What is a dome mountain
200
Type of fault that occurs at a convergent boundary
What is a reverse fault
300
Type of volcano with a broad base, gently sloped sides, with eruptions of runny lava
What is a shield volcano
300
Wave type that is the fastest
What is primary wave
300
Block that is positioned under the fault
What is the foot wall
300
Type of mountain formed when normal faults uplift sections of rock
What is fault-block mountain
300
Process to find the location of an earthquake
What is triangulation
400
Type of volcano that is small, steeply sloped, and has eruptions of ash, cinders, or small rocks.
What is a cinder cone volcano
400
Type of wave that can not travel through the liquid outer core of Earth
What is secondary wave
400
Type of fault that occurs at divergent boundaries (tension force)
What is normal fault
400
The upward and downward folds within a folded mountain
What are anticlines and synclines
400
Blocks of crust that were pushed upward between faults
What is a horst
500
Where volcanoes are most likely to occur
What is at plate boundaries
500
The scale for measuring the strength of an earthquake
What is the Richter scale
500
Type of fault where blocks move horizontally past one another
What is strike-slip fault
500
The tallest mountain in the world
What is Mt Everest
500
Example of a place formed by hot spot volcanoes
What is Hawaii