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Seismic Activity
100
This volcano has gently sloping sides.
What is a shield volcano?
100
This is the central feature of a volcano
What is the vent?
100
This is molten rock above ground.
What is lava?
100
this is a Fracture zone in the earth's surface
What is a fault?
100
this is the record produced by a seismogram.
What is a seismograph?
200
This type of volcano has layers of ash and lava.
What is a composite volcano?
200
This is the narrow tube that rises from the magma chamber to the vent.
What is the pipe.
200
This is molten rock below ground?
What is magma
200
This is a weak earthquake.
What is a tremor?
200
The most active earthquake zone.
What is the Circum-Pacific belt?
300
This type of volcano is a very steep cone shaped hill or mountain.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
300
This is the resevoir of magma
What is the magma chamber?
300
This material changes the thickness of lava.
What is silica?
300
This is the point in the earth at which an earthquake starts.
What is a focus?
300
This is an earthquake scale that describes an eathquake's effect on man.
What is the Mercalli scale?
400
This is a volcano that has erupted within recorded history or is currently producing seismic activity
What is a lava plateau?
400
This is the bowl shaped area that forms around the volcano's vent.
What is the crater?
400
This is ropey lava.
What is pahoehoe?
400
This is the point on the earth's surface above a focus.
What is an epicenter?
400
Method of measuring an earthquake that is considered the most reliable.
What is the Moment Magnitude Scale.
500
This is a hole left by the collapse of a volcanic mountain.
What is a caldera?
500
This is a crack that lava flows out which is not the main vent.
What is the side vent.
500
This is lava that hardens into rough, jagged rocks with a crumbly texture.
What is aa?
500
This type of wave is the first type of seismic wave generated.
What is a P wave?
500
Method of anti-earthquake construction where the building is constructed on bedrock.
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