
Quiz 2 Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Quiz by Trina Hope-Ross
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- Q1a volcano made of cinder (ashes) with steep sides and a bowl-shaped cratercinder cone volcano30s
- Q2a volcano made of alternating layers of lava and cinder or ashcomposite volcano30s
- Q3term used to describe a volcano that is not activedormant30s
- Q4shaking of the ground caused by the sudden release of energy that is stored in the bedrockearthquake30s
- Q5the place on the surface of the Earth that is directly above the focus of an earthquakeepicenter30s
- Q6the term used when a volcano becomes activeerupt30s
- Q7a crack in the bedrock along which rocks break and move during an earthquakefault30s
- Q8the place deep in the Earth's crust where an earthquake beginsfocus30s
- Q9a place under the Earth's crust at which magma is forced up to the surface because the temperature is much greater than normalhot spot30s
- Q10the scale used to measure the strength of an earthquakeRichter scale30s
- Q11the machine used to measure the strength of earthquakesseismograph30s
- Q12a volcano with gently sloping layers composed of cooled magmashield volcano30s
- Q13an opening in Earth's crust that can release lava, smoke, and ash when it eruptsvolcano30s
- Q14A giant wave usually caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor.tsunami30s
- Q15A theory stating that the earth's surface is broken into plates that move.plate tectonics30s