Volcanoes |
#1 |
What is hot melted rock deep inside the earth |
magma |
#2 |
What is magma that has reached the earth's surface |
lava |
#3 |
What are the three types of volcanoes, describe at what they look like |
shield-dome short; cinder cone-like a cone, throws rock and cinder; composite-layered and steep |
#4 |
Volcanoes that are located in a ring shaped area around the Pacific Ocean |
Ring of Fire |
#5 |
List all the part of the volcano (hint there are 7) |
central vent, conduit, crater, lava flow, side vent, magama chamber, smoke and ash |
Plate Boundaries |
#1 |
The theory that explains how the continents moved, based on fossils and rock formations |
continental drift |
#2 |
What is seafloor spreading |
when two plates separate and magma comes up and fills in gap to make a new ocean floor |
#3 |
Give an example of a transform fault boundary |
San Andreas Fault |
#4 |
Name the three different type of plate boundaries and model with hands what happens |
Divergent-seperate, new ocean floor, convergent-collide; two types mountains or volcanoes; transform fault-slide earthquakes |
#5 |
Give a real example of each of the different plate boundaries |
San Andres Fault, Alps, Mid-Pacific Ridge |
Earthquakes |
#1 |
What is the instrument used to measure earthquakes |
sesimograph |
#2 |
What is the scale used to measure the severity of the earthquake |
Richter Scale |
#3 |
A wave that is formed when an earthquake happens underwater |
Tsunami |
#4 |
Describe the difference between epicenter and focus |
Focus-where earthquakes starts in the earth, the place where earthquakes happens on the surface |
#5 |
Describe the difference between active, dormant, and extinct |
active, erupts often and dangerous, dormant, has not erupted for many years, extinct-hasnt erupted in thousands of years |