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Vocab
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
It's not your fault
Misc.
100
molten rock inside the Earth
What is Magma?
100
lava that is very runny probably has this
What is low silica content?
100
these are the last seismic waves to arrive
What are surface waves?
100
A break in the Earth's crust along which blocks of crust slide past each other.
What is a fault?
100
Mount St. Helens' eruption covered the city of Spokane, WA with tons of ash. This eruption would be described as this
What is explosive, producing pyroclastic material
200
area in Pacific Ocean where there are a lot of volcanoes
What is the ring of fire?
200
Volcanoes are most likely to form here
Where are hot spots and plate boundaries?
200
P and S waves are two types of these
What are body waves?
200
waves of energy that travel through Earth and cause earthquakes
What are seismic waves?
200
Kilaeua, Hawaii is this type of volcano
What is a shield volcano?
300
an instrument located at or near Earth's surface that records seismic waves.
What is a seismograph?
300
the type of magma that is thick due to high silica content
What is high viscosity magma ?
300
the study of earthquakes
What is seismology?
300
the amount of seismograph stations required to locate the epicenter
What is 3?
300
a small, steeply sloped volcano that forms moderately explosive eruptions of pyroclastic material
What is a cinder cone volcano?
400
a place on Earth's surface that is directly above a column of rising magma called a mantle plume
What are hot spots?
400
lava fountains are an example of this type of eruption
What are non-explosive?
400
most common scale used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake
What is the Richter Scale?
400
this fault runs along almost the entire state of California.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
400
the amount of active volcanoes in the world
What is 1,500?
500
a type of seismic wave that occur inside Earth
What are body waves?
500
clouds of hot debris and gases shoot out from this volcano at supersonic speeds
What is a composite volcano?
500
places on Earth's surface where an earthquake begins
What is the Epicenter?
500
the Richter Scale is used to measure this
What is the ground motion of an Earthquake?
500
place where over 200 volcanic eruptions occur each year
Where is under the oceans?