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volcanoes

volcanoes
earthquake
earthquake
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100
Aa,pillow lava,blocky lava,pahoehoe
What is four types of lava?
100
Is a funnel-shaped pit near the top of the central vent of a volcano.
What is a crater?
100
The fonts of entire buildings collapsed into the streets of Kobe, Japan.
What happend during the January 17,1995 earthquake?
100
seismograph
What machine measures how strong an earthquake is?
100
bandads,a cover, shampoo, tooth past and toothbrush.
What are some things you should put in an earthquake kit?
200
it is a body of molten rock deep underground that feeds a volcano
What is a magma chamber?
200
A large, semicirular depression that forms when the magma chamber below a volcano partially empties and causes the ground above to sink.
What is caldera?
200
safegaurd your home.
What is the first and most important thing you need to do before an earthquake?
200
ten-10
What is the strongest earthquake that has ever happened?
200
Aa,pahoehoe, blocky lava,pillow lava
What types of lava are their?
300
shield volcano,cinder cone volcano,composite volcano.
What are the three types of volcanoes?
300
A wide, flat landform that results from repeated none-explosive eruptions of lava that spread over a large area.
What is a lava plateau?
300
A wave of energy that travels through the earth, away from an earthquake in all directions.
What are seismic waves?
300
movment of tectonic plates
What causes an earthquake to happen?
300
a seismic wave that causes particals of rock to move in a back and forth directions.
What are p-waves?
400
it is a volcanically active area of earths surface far from a tectonic plate boundary.
What is a hot spot?
400
17 million years ago
When did The Clumbia River start to outpour?
400
The point along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs.
What is focus?
400
seismogram
What traces an earthquakes motion?
400
a seismic wave that causes particles of rock to move in a side-to-side direction.
What is s-waves?
500
1980
When did Mount St.Helens erupted?
500
an area of deep cracks that forms between two tectonic plates that are pulling away from each other
What is a rift zone?
500
The point on earths surface directly above an earthquake's starting point, or focus.
What is epicenter?
500
p-waves
What causes rocks particals to move back and forth?
500
the study of earthquakes
What is seismology?