Valcanoes

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a line on the earth

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fault

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s a major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.

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ring of fire

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2 things slide by

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transform / strike-slip

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2 plates seperate

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divergent / normal

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2 plates collide

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convergent

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is one of the two main types of elastic body wave

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p waves

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S-waves, secondary waves, or shear waves (sometimes called an elastic S-wave) are a type of elastic wave

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s waves

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the ground level right above the center of the earthquae

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epicenter

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the center of the earthquake underground

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focus

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measuring earthquakes

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Richter scale

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sending ash, gas and magma high up into the atmosphere

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explosive volcano

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Because the composition of magma is different in different volcanoes, the properties of the lava are different. In effusive eruptions, lava flows are relatively calm and do not explode out of the volcano.

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nonexplosive volcano

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a volcanic island situated in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung

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Krakatoa

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a volcanic caldera and supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park in the Western United States, sometimes referred to as the Yellowstone Supervolcano

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Yellowstone supervolcano

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a continental transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers through California

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San Andreas Fault

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an underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonics

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Mid-oceanic ridge

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a type of volcano usually built almost entirely of fluid lava flows

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shield volcano

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a steep conical hill of loose pyroclastic fragments, such as either volcanic clinkers, cinders, volcanic ash, or scoria that has been built around a volcanic vent

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cinder cone volcano

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a conical volcano built up by many layers of hardened lava, tephra, pumice, and volcanic ash

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composite volcano

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volcanic regions thought to be fed by underlying mantle that is anomalously hot compared with the surrounding mantle

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hot spot