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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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An opening in Earth's crust where molten material is expelled.

What is a volcano?

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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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Large broken slabs / pieces of Eart's crust

What are tectonic plates?

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Earthquakes form at these type of plate boundaries.

Convergent and transform plate boundaries.

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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"

Continents are on tectonic plates.

Tectonic plates move on top of the asthenosphere (molten magma) due to convection currents.

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An area where 2 large sets of rocks move beside each other
What is a fault
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What do we call plates that are pulling away from each other?

What are diverging tectonic plates?

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The _________________ is the surface location directly above the earthquake.

What is the epicenter

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Volcanoes typically form at these types of plate boundaries.

Convergent plate boundary.

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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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What causes earthquakes? Write a full sentence answer. 

Earthquakes are caused by the movements or shifts of tectonic plates. 

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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 faults? 

Faults are similar to boundaries, there are 3 types of faults, they are basically cracks in tectonic plates. 

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How to reduce damage from volcanic eruptions and earthquakes?

Early warning system

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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, use a full sentence. 

They are formed under subduction plates


The teacher will decide accuracy of answers. 

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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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Knowing this time in seconds, we can locate an earthquake's epicentre.

What is P-S wave time difference?