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A wall of water that forms from a earthquake out in the ocean is known as a what?
What is a Tsunami
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What is the most famous volcano in north america
What is Mt. St. Helens
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What was the scientific name for when all the continents we together as one?
What is Pangea
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What is the instrument called that measures the size of an earthquake?
What is Seismograph
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What are the 3 main areas that make up the earth?
What is The crust, mantle and core
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What scale do we use to measure how large an earthquake is? If a 1 on the scale is like 10 bombs, what is a 3 on the scale?
What is Richter Scale
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What is the most famous volcano in the world
What is Mt. Vesuvius
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Describe how continents "drift"
What is Mr. Shaw will decide answer.
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An area where 2 large sets of rocks move beside each other
What is a fault
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The ___________________ if the place deep in the crust where the earthquake begins. The _________________ is the surface location directly above the earthquake.
What is Focus and epicenter
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What is the city called that Mt. Vesuvius buried in Italy leaving casts of dead bodies?
What is Pompeii
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Give 2 signs of evidence of continental drift?
What is Rocks and Fossils
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What is the area called where there are lots of volcanoes in a huge circle?
What is Ring of fire
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What is the zone called where one plate is diving under another plate?
What is Subduction zone
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list the 3 types of seismic waves in order that they travel from 1st to 3rd. Which wave is the fastest? Which wave does the most damage?
What is 1. P waves or primary waves 2. S waves or secondary waves 3. Surface waves P waves are fastest, surface waves do most damage
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Volcano's that are not active are said to be what?
What is dormant
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What are the two types of crust? which is heavier and thicker?
What is Oceanic and Continental crust. Continental crust
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What are the 3 types of faults and explain how the plates of rock are moving to form each
What is Normal fault - Rock is moving away from each other Reverse Fault - rock is pushing against each other Transform fault - rock is sliding past each other side by side
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What are the 3 types of plates that can pull apart or push together?
What is Continent to continent Ocean to Ocean Continent to ocean
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There are many __________________ after a major earthquake. Kobe earthquake in japan had 600 of them.
What is Aftershocks
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explain how volcanoes are formed
What is Mr. Shaw will decide answer
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What do we call plates that are pushing into and against each other?
What is Converging plates
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What do we call plates that are moving away from each other?
What is Diverging plates
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What type of radar to we use to scan the bottom of the ocean floor for plate activity?
What is Sonar