Famous Volcanoes
This volcano in Indonesia, is thought to have made one of the loudest sounds ever.
What is Krakatoa
These types of volcanoes are the tallest, they are very steep, have symmetrical sides, and are often what people think of when think of volcanoes.
What are Composite or Stratovolcanoes
This type of fault is when the hanging wall goes downward.
What is a normal fault
A seismologist is someone who studies what?
What are earthquakes
Volcanoes can be formed from hot spots, or this process.
What is subduction
This volcano grew in a Mexican farmer's backyard overnight
What is Parícutin
These volcanoes are cone shaped, and they generally have a crater at their summit. They are relatively short volcanoes, at around 1,000 feet tall
What are cinder cones
This type of fault is when a reverse wall goes upward
What is a reverse fault
These types of waves are the strongest and travel through solids, liquids, and gases.
What are P-waves or Primary waves
This area along the pacific ocean is notorious for having volcanoes form along it.
What is the Ring of Fire
The lava of this shield volcano is still going today, and many tourists come and see it.
Kīlauea
These volcanoes are made of liquid lava flows, and they are around 3-4 miles in diameter
What are shield volcanoes
This type of fault is when the hanging wall and footwall slide past each other.
What is a strike-slip fault
These waves are slower and can only travel through solids.
What are S-waves or Secondary Waves
The point where an earthquake starts is called the focus, directly above it, on the surface, is this point.
What is the epicenter
This volcano in Washington erupted five times in1980.
What is Mt. St. Helens
These volcanoes are formed when great amounts of magma are removed from under a volcano, after an eruption, then the volcano collapses forming a huge bowl
What are Calderas
This type of stress causes a normal fault
What is tensional stress
These waves travel along the Earth's surface, and are the most the most deadly.
What are Surface Waves
This U.S state has had the most earthquakes of them all.
What is Alaska
This Volcano destroyed Pompeii in 79 A.D.
What is Mt. Vesuvius
These volcanoes are formed from lava that is too thick to flow far, these volcanoes expand when lava erupts and pushes outer layers of the volcano outward, forming a bulge shape.
What are lava domes
This type of stress causes a reverse fault
What is compressional stress
These machines record earthquake waves.
What are seismographs
The word tsunami means this in Japanese
What is harbor wave