Question | Answer |
What is a hot spot? | An area where magma burns through the crust. |
What is a geyser? | A jet of hot water that shoots up out of the water. |
What is an Extinct volcano? | Never Erupt again. |
What is a caldera? | A large crater made when a volcano empties it's magma chamber. |
What is the ring of fire? | Chain of volcanoes around the pacific plate. |
What is a dormant volcano? | A "sleeping volcano." |
What is an explosive eruption? | Produces Pyroclastic flows. |
What is silica? | oxygen and silica together. |
What is a hot spring? | A pool of water heated by magma. |
What is an active volcano? | A volcano that is currently erupting. |
What is a quiet volcano? | Produces two types of lava. |
What is a volcanic neck? | What forms when magma in a volcanoes pipe cools off. |
What is a batholith? | What is formed when a volcanoes magma chamber cools off. |
What are the three types of volcanoes? | Shield, Cimder Cone, and Composite |
What is Shield? | Largest type, shaped like a warors shield laying down, gentls slope, large crater, and quiet eruption. |
What is Cinder Cone? | Smallest type, steep slope, large crater, explosive eruptions. |
What is Composite? | Look like must mountains, alternating layers of ash and lava, explosive and quiet eruptions. |
What are the three types of lava flows? | Pryoclastic, Pahoehoe, and AA |
What is AA? | Slower moving, cooler than Pahoehoe, thick |
What is Pahoehoe? | Hot lava, moves fast, thin |
What is Pryoclastic? | most dangerous, composed of gasses, cinder, ash, and thick and sticky lava. |
What are the three types of plate boundaries? | Divergent, Convergent, and Transform. |
What are the three different types of stress? | Tension, Compression, and Shearing. |
What are the three different types of faults? | Normal, Reversal, and Strike-slip. |
What is folding? | The bending of rock upward or downward. |
What are P Waves? | Waves that come first in an earthquake. |
What are S Waves? | Waves that at come second in earthquakes. |
What is stress? | The amount of force put on a given material. |
What is deformation? | The folding, breaking, or flow of the Earths crust. |
What is the Epicenter? | The point directly above the surface in an earthquake. |