When this volcano erupts, the lava shoots into the air and breaks into small fragments.
What is a cinder cone volcano.
100
This eruption is highly liquid lava generally flowing out slowly and builds up shild volcanoes.
What is a hawaiin eruption.
100
Pick an activity to do for 10 seconds:pushups, situps or lunges.
If you do it for the entire length of time, you earn the points.
100
This type of rock are made of bits and pieces of other rocks.
What is sedimentary rock.
100
Play rock, paper, scissors, with two different people.
For each game you win, you earn 100 points.
200
When this volcano erupts, lava flows from a vent and spreads out in all directions.
What is a shield volcano.
200
This eruption is the most violent volcanic eruption. Gases trapped in sticky magma build up tremendous pressure. Poisonous gases also rush down from the vent.
What is a Peleean eruption.
200
This is a break or crack in the rocks of the lithosphere along which movements take place.
What is a fault.
200
These rocks were once igneous, sedimentary or even other metamorphic rocks that were exposed to high temperatures and great pressure.
What is metamorphic rock.
200
Provide an example of a volcanic island arc.
What is Hawaii, Japan, the Aleutian islands.
300
This volcano is made up of layers of lava flows alternating with layers of ash, cinders, and rocks.
What is a composite volcano.
300
This eruption begins with loud explosions, followed by smaller ones. Ash, dust, and other volcanic materials are blown into the air.
What is a vulcanian eruption.
300
What is the relationship between the focus and the epicenter?
The focus is the point below the surface of Earth where an earthquake begins, The epicenter is the point on the surface, directly above the focus.
300
This the continually changing of rocks from one type to another ina a never ending cycle called the what?
What is the rock cycle.
300
This is a region of volcanic activity in the middle of a tectonic plate.
What is a hot spot.
400
Which type of volcano is the largest in the world?
What is a shield volcano.
400
This eruption has thick magma that accumulates in the vent and builds up pressure that is realsed, emitting fragments that pile up into cinder cones.
What is a strombolian eruption.
400
What is the process of how they find the epicenter of an earthquake.
What is triangulation.
400
Basalt is an _________________ rock that forms from lava that has cooled and hardened very quickly.
What is an igneous rock.
400
This is a fountain of hot water and steam that shoots into the air at regular or irregular intervals.
What is a geyser.
500
The class has to do 10 push ups.
If you do them, you earn a point.
500
Scientists classify volcanoes according to how often they erupt. What are the four types.
What is active, intermittent, dormant, and extinct.
500
What are the two types of scales for measuring earthquakes. Which one is more accurate and why.
What is richter and mercalli scale. The richter scale because...
500
The class AND teacher plank for 34 seconds.
If you do it for then entire lenght of time, you earn the points.
500
What is the difference between magma and lava.
Lava is what comes out of the volcano, magma is below the earth's crust.