Land Ho!
Areas where the seafloor is forced under continental plates are known as these zones
What are subduction zones?
The most outer solid portion of the planet earth is called this.
What is the crust?
Most damage caused by a tornado is due to this
What is flying debris?
When magma is erupted to the surface, it is then called this.
What is lava?
This is the largest mountain range in the world and has an effect on the planets weather.
What are the himalayas?
2 plates that are coming together are doing this.
What is converging?
The section of the earth below the crust is called this
What is the mantle?
This type of water would increase the strength of a hurricane.
What is warmer water?
This is the largest known eruption in the United States.
What is Mt. St. Helens?
Mountain formation occurs when these objects come together.
What are tectonic plates?
2 plates that are moving apart are doing this.
What is diverging?
The deepest parts of the ocean are known as these
What are trenches?
An EF 4 is a measurement of this type of natural disaster.
What is a tornado?
This is the term for lavas resistance to flow
What is viscosity?
Paleontologists finding the same preserved fossils on many different continents is evidence of this theory.
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
A weather pattern where warm surface water moves east from the equator is known as this.
What is El Nino?
Large thin plates that move relative to one another on the outer surfae of the earth are called these
What are tectonic plates?
An Earthquake near the New Madrid Fault next to Tennessee caused the Mississippi river's flow to do this for 2 days as Reel Foot lake was filled in.
What is flowed backwards?
What italian city was demolished by a volcano?
What is pompeii?
The location on the surface directly above where the earthquake originates is known as this.
What is the Epicenter?
The term for a destructive mud-slide on the base of a volcano is called what?
What is a lahar?
A depression formed by the collapse of the top of a volcano is called this
what is a caldera?
Dangerous currents near the shore that can be escaped by swimming diagonally are called these.
What are RIP currents?
This is the term for a deformation that means "stretch"
What is elastic
This U.S. city was destroyed during the great Quake of 1923.
What is San Fransisco?