Earthquakes
Type of wave produced by an Earthquake. Can travel through solids and liquids.
What is P/L waves.
The main reason that causes magma to flow upward through the Earth's crust
What is magma is less dense
The three ways tectonic plates are able to move with each other.
What is converge, diverge, and transform
This type of volcano is the most explosive type of volcano.
What is a cinder cone volcano
The two types of waves needed to measure an Earthquake on a seismograph.
What are P and S waves
Equation used by seismologists to help find the distance to an epicenter of an Earthquake.
What is d=st
Hot area in the mantle that melts the crust above
What is a hot spot
Alfred Wegener created this theory, stating that continents moved.
What is Theory of Continental Drift
What is the Richter scale.
Number on the modified Mercalli scale, means total destruction.
What is XII
Scale used to measure Earthquakes, based off of observed effects.
What is Modified Mercalli Scale
The main difference between magma and lava.
What is magma is inside the earth, lava is outside.
Name of the supercontinent.
What is Pangaea.
This type of volcano has a very high gas content, and can create lots of pressure.
What is a composite volcano.
This type of rock forms from cooling magma or lava.
What is igneous rock.
The point of an Earthquake that is directly above the focus.
What is the Epicenter
A curved chain of islands that are formed by a hot spot.
What is an Island Arc
Type of plate boundary that helps form a rift valley.
What is a divergent plate boundary.
Piece of evidence that supports Wegener's theory of Continental Drift.
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The silica content produced by a composite volcano.
What is Andesite Magma.
The name of the fault located in the United States that produces powerful Earthquakes, and is a transforming fault.
What is San Andreas Fault.
This type of volcano is the least explosive.
What is a shield volcano.
Process where one tectonic plate boundary, is forced UNDER another one.
What is subduction.
This type of volcano produces pyroclastic material.
What is cinder cone volcano.
The silica content produced by a shield volcano.
What is basaltic magma.