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EARTHQUAKE AND VOLCANO STUDY GUIDE
A. MATCHING: Write the letter of the term that best completes the question.
_____ 1. Device used to measure earthquake waves.
A. P waves
_____ 2. Point on the surface where seismic waves
radiate out.
_____ 3. Immense sea waves caused by an earthquake.
B. Richter scale
C. lava
_____ 4. The study of earthquakes.
D. seismic waves
_____ 5. Measures the magnitude of an earthquake.
E. L waves
_____ 6. Vibration waves caused by earthquakes.
F. Ring of Fire
_____ 7. small volcanic cone made totally from pyroclastic material.
G. seismograph
_____8. A major earthquake zone in the Pacific.
H. Crust
_____9. When a magma chamber empties and the volcano collapses
I. S waves
_____10. The outer layer of the earth’s lithosphere
_____11. A fracture in the earth’s surface whose sides
move in relation to each other.
J.. epicenter
K. crater
____12.The fastest seismic waves.
L. seismology
_____13. The most common cause of earthquakes.
M. tsunami
____14. Shear waves, the second fastest waves.
N. fault
____15. Magma that erupts and flows on the earth’s surface.
O. Pyroclastic Material
____16. Surface waves.
____17. Material like ash, rock and debris from an explosive eruption.
P. focus
Q. cinder cone
____18. Funnel-shaped pit around the central vent of a volcano.
R. caldera
19.What is the study of earthquakes called?_________________________
20.What is the study of volcanoes called?__________________________
21.List the three types of seismic waves and their
motion:_______________________________________________________________________
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22.What is the most common cause of earthquakes?
A. Tsunamis
B. Seismic waves
C. Faulting
D. Surface waves
23.Please list the three types of earthquake scales and what they measure:
Mercalli:
Moment Magnitude:
Richter Scale:
True or false (If false, write the correct statement.)
24.A volcano would most likely form in the center of continents or deep canyons.
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25.The epicenter is located under the surface on the fault.
_____________________________________________________________________________.
26.A composite volcano is built of layers with nonexplosive eruptions.
______________________________________________________________________________
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27.A nonexplosive eruption erupts pyroclastic
material._________________________________________________.
28.Primary waves can travel through solid, liquid and gases.
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29. What are places on the Earth’ surface, directly about columns of rising mantle, that create
island chains called?
a. Hot spots
B. divergent boundary
c. convection currentsd. pyroclastic spots
30. List the definition of a seismograph:
31. List the definition of a seismogram:
32. Write the difference between magma and lava? Where are they
located?_______________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________.
33. Describe the difference of Pahoehoe and
aa:___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
34. Write ten items you should include in an earthquake emergency
kit:___________________________________________________________________________
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35. Please draw a quick sketch of each type of volcano we have studied. Include the following
(mantle chamber, vent and crater.) Under your drawing please list the type of eruption and the
kind of material erupted from the volcano.