Vocabulary
An instrument that measures and records details of earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
The name of the surface layer of the Earth.
What is the Crust?
The volcano that is built by alternating layers of lava flows, volcanic ash, cinders, and bombs.
What is a Composite Volcano?
The first seismic wave to reach a seismic station.
What is the P Wave (Primary Wave)?
The name of the supercontinent that was present 200 million years ago, according to Alfred Wegener.
What is Pangea?
The record produced by the seismograph.
What is the Seismogram?
The largest layer of the Earth.
What is the Mantle?
A volcano with small cone-shaped volcanoes with steep angled sides.
What is a Cinder Cone Volcano?
The location of the Ring of Fire where many earthquakes occur.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The kind of plate boundary which results in the formation of a fault line like in California.
What is a transform boundary?
The scale which measures the strength or magnitude of an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
The only liquid layer of the Earth.
What is the Outer Core?
The volcano formed by thick lava flows that flow slowly and are not explosive.
What is a shield volcano?
The study of earthquakes.
What is seismology?
The type of plate boundary which collides.
What is Converging Boundary?
The scale which measures the intensity or severity of an earthquake.
What is the Mercalli Scale?
The inner core is made of
What is Solid Iron and Nickel
The volcano that continues to grow as it spills loose fragments down the sides and forms a dome shape.
What is a lava dome volcano?
The amount of seismic station it takes to locate the epicenter of an Earthquake.
What is 3?
The type of plate boundary which divides.
What is Divergent Boundary?
What is a powerful series of waves generated by an earthquake or landslide under the ocean?
The process that occurs in the mantle which is responsible for the crust's movement.
What is Convection?
A volcano that is quiet now, but might erupt again. Mount Fuji is an example.
What is a dormant volcano?
The seismic waves which cause the most destruction.
What is surface waves?
The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle again.
What is Subduction?