Earthquakes
Volcanoes 1
Volcanoes 2
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Bonus
100
An earthquake can cause _________. Large ocean waves that can devastate cities
What is a tsunami.
100
What type of boundaries do most volcanoes erupt?
What are divergent plate boundaries?
100
The type of volcano with gentle slopes made from basalt.
What is a shield volcano?
100
A fast moving, avalanche of hot gas, ash, and rock that erupts from an explosive volcano.
What is pyroclastic flow?
100
This is the name of the starting point of an earthquake.
What is the epicenter?
200
The different types of stress on rock are.
Compression, Tension, Shearing, Confining/Uniform
200
Volcanoes form when magma
a. flows through the crust.
b. changes in composition.
c. hardens beneath the surface.
What is
a. flows through the crust.
200
A large, steep-sided volcano made of lava and ash.
What is a composite volcano?
200
Volcanoes around the world are mostly found here
What is around the edge of plates? Also the ring of fire
200
Between peanut butter and ketchup which more dense and would sink to the center of the earth
Peanut butter
300
A fault is defined as...
A break or crack where movement occurs.
300
Magma that is rich in gases will form a volcano
A. that erupts explosively.
B. with gently sloping sides.
C. whose lava has a low viscosity.
What is
A. that erupts explosively.
Think milkshake.
300
A small, steep-sided volcano made of basalt.
What is a cinder cone?
300
__________ is a type of lava that is high in silica. It is sticky and chunky.
What is felsic lava?
300
Large and explosive volcanic eruptions can change climate because ash and gas that erupt high into the atmosphere can do this.
What is...
Block out the sun.
Create ash clouds.
400
Which of the following is a reverse/thrust fault?
400
___________ is what is stored inside a volcano, while ___________ is what flows down or explodes out a volcano.
Magma, Lava
400
The presence of _________ in lava increases its explosiveness.
What are gases?
400
____________ is a type of lava that flows faster, it is high in basalt.
What is mafic lava?
400
This state has no active volcanoes?
A. California
B. Hawaii
C. Washington
D. New York
What is
D. New York?
500
The land on the right hand side is the...
Hanging Wall
500
Lava that comes up from an underwater volcano and starts to harden as it reaches the surface is called
What is pumice?
500
Volcanoes that erupt felsic and intermediate lava are explosive because the lava is high in this.
What is silica?
500
A high viscosity liquid travels __________.
A low viscosity liquid travels ___________.
slow, fast.
500
Most of the active volcanoes in the United States are located here.
What is the Ring of Fire?