Question | Answer |
What would you expect to see after an explosive volcanic eruption? | Calm Lava flows |
What is another word for molten rock? | magma |
Molten rock that flows on the Earth's surface | lava |
dust-sized particles of hardened lava | ash |
magma that is blasted into the air and hardens | pyroclastic material |
a crack or opening in the Earth's crust | vent |
a funnel shaped pit near a volcano's central vent | crater |
a small volcano that usually erupts for a short time | cinder cone volcano |
The core consists of mainly this | iron |
a substance that is composed of two or more elements? | compound |
the bending of rock layers because of stress | folding |
a landform caused by repeated eruptions of lava | volcano |
A volcano that probably won't erupt again | extinct volcano |
A volcano that will erupt soon or is currently erupting | active volcano |
A volcano that hasn't erupted for a long time but may erupt in the near future | dormant volcano |
Stiffy cube lava that oozes out a volcano and forms in chunks | blocky lava |
That lava is glassy, and hardens in smooth wrinkles. | pahoehoe lava |
Lava that forms jaggad peaks, and hurts when you step on it | a'a lava |
stress at a divergent plate boundary | tension |
when a hanging wall moves down relative to footwall | normal fault |
rising of rock layers | uplift |
sinking of rock layers | subsidence |
hanging wall moves up relative to footwall | reverse fault |
What type of weather would a nimbostratus cloud likely bring. | Rain |
Amount of water vapor in the air | humidity |
Process in which liquid turns to vapor | evaporation |
area of high pressure where air moves apart and sinks | anitcyclone |
the temperature at which air must cool to be saturated | dew point |
process in which water vapor turns into liquid | condensation |
area of low pressure where air masses meet and rise. | cyclone |
area in which two types of air masses meet | front |
tracks the location, movement, and amount of precipitation | radar |
consist of two thermometers | physhrometers |
measures air pressure | barometer |
a cloud that forms near the ground | fog |
a cloud that brings a thunderstorm | cumulonimbus |
a puffy white cloud with a flat bottom | cumulous |
clouds that cover a large | stratus |
A tornado is dangerous mostly because of its ______________ | strong winds |
The most powerful storms on earth are _____________ | hurricanes |