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100
An underground pool that holds magma, below a volcano
What is a Magma chamber
100
Melted rock that reaches earth's surface.
What is lava
100
A mountain that forms whan red-hot melted rock flows through a crack onto earth's surface
What is a volcano
200
An instrument that records earthquake waves
What is a seismograph
200
Melted rock inside earth
What is magma
200
The point underground where the movement of an earthquake first takes place
What is a focus
300
A vibration, or a shaking, of earth's crust
What is a earthquake
300
The dense center of earth; a ball made mostly of two metals, iron and nickel
What is a core
300
A break in earth's crust along which rocks move
What is fault
400
A large basin form at a top of a volcano when a top falls in on itself
What is a crater
400
The point on the surface of earth that is right above the focus of and earthquake
What is a epicenter
500
In a volcano, the rocky opening through which magma rises thoward the surface
What is a vent
500
Continent - sized slab of earth's crust and upper mantle
What is a plate