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Earthquakes
Mountains
Volcanoes
Vocabulary
Facts
100
What is an instrument that can detect the shaking of an earthquake?
What is a seismograph
100
The highest mountain range on Earth is?
What is the Himalayas
100
What is the difference between magma and lava?
What is lava is magma that reaches the surface of Earth.
100
What is the point in Earth's crust where an earthquake starts?
What is the focus.
100
The largest earthquake in Kansas took place where?
What is Manhattan.
200
What instrument measures the energy released during an earthquake?
What is a Richter scale
200
What type of mountain is formed by the collision of 2 plates?
What is a folded mountain.
200
What kind of volcano is the Hawaiian Islands?
What is a shield volcano.
200
What is the place where pieces of the crust move?
What is the fault.
200
The largest earthquake in the world took place in what country?
What is Chile.
300
What instrument measures the amount of damage done at a given location during an earthquake?
What is the Mercalli Scale.
300
Pikes Peak is an example of what type of mountain?
What is a Dome Mountain.
300
A hot spot under the ocean floor is most likely to do what?
What is build a chain of islands.
300
What is molten rock from the mantle?
What is magma.
300
The largest earthquake in the United States took place where?
What is Alaska.
400
The fastest moving wave during an earthquake?
What is a P wave.
400
How is a fault block mountain formed?
What is when blocks of rock move up or down along a fault.
400
A volcano that is now erupting is said to be?
What is active.
400
What is the point on Earth's surface directly above the focus?
What is the epicenter.
400
What was the magnitude of the largest earthquake in Kansas?
What is 5.1
500
The Richter scale rates earthquakes from?
What is 1 to 10.
500
How is a dome mountain formed?
What is when the surface of a mountain is lifted up by magma that cools and hardens to form a dome, or bulge.
500
A volcano that hasn't erupted in many years, but could erupt in the near future?
What is dormant.
500
What is the earthquake wave that makes the ground roll and sway.
What is a surface wave.
500
What is the magnitude of the largest earthquake in the world?
What is 9.5.