Earthquakes and Volcanoes

Question 1

The earth is made up of:

Answer 1

Inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust

Question 2

What is the lithosphere?

Answer 2

The crust and part of the mantle

Question 3

What says that the Earth’s lithosphere is made up of moving plates that float on the partly melted rock?

Answer 3

Theory of plate tectonics

Question 4

Places where the plates meet

Answer 4

Plate boundaries

Question 5

Breaks in the earth’s surface along which rocks can move

Answer 5

Faults

Question 6

The beginning point of an earthquake

Answer 6

Focus

Question 7

Waves of energy sent out from the focus

Answer 7

Seismic waves

Question 8

The point on the surface of the earth directly above the focus

Answer 8

Epicenter

Question 9

Scientists who study the movement in the speed of P and S waves to help calculate the location of the focus of an earthquake

Answer 9

Seismologists

Question 10

A machine used to detect, time, and measure the Earth’s movements

Answer 10

Seismograph

Question 11

Records of the movements that seismographs produce

Answer 11

Seismograms

Question 12

Measures the amount of destruction that an earthquake causes to manmade structures

Answer 12

Mercalli Scale

Question 13

Measures the magnitude, or strength, of the seismic waves of an earthquake

Answer 13

Richter Scale

Question 14

Shield volcano, cinder cone volcano, composite cone volcano

Answer 14

By shape

Question 15

Active, dormant, extinct

Answer 15

By how often they erupt

Question 16

Hawaiian and Strombolian

Answer 16

Nonviolent eruptions

Question 17

Vulcanian, Pelham, Plinian

Answer 17

Violent eruptions