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| Composite Volcanoes are also known as |
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| Activity involving magma moving onto the surface |
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| Areas of volcanism within lithospheric plates are known as |
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| Scientists plot three intersecting circles to locate an earthquake's |
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| The amount of energy released by an earthquake is also known as its |
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| The major zone of active volcanoes that encircles the Pacific Ocean is called the |
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| The resistance of lava flow |
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| The funnel-shaped pit at the top of a volcanic vent |
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| Magma that flows on the surface |
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| A column of hot, solid material from the deep mantle |
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| Produced by Mafic Magma, a runny lava with a low viscosity and few trapped gases |
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| Large rock particles less than 64 mm |
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| Formed on the ocean floor where one plate subducts under another |
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| Formed on the overriding plate when two plates with oceanic lithosphere at their boundaries collide |
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| Produced by felsic magma, a sticky lava with high viscosity and a high amount of trapped gases |
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| Type of rock that forms when magma cools and hardens |
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| Cracks through which lava flows to Earth's surface |
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| Fragments of rock that form during volcanic eruption |
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| Magma that cools and hardens below the crust, before it reaches Earth's surface |
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| Opening in volcano from which lava flows |
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| The second fastest seismic wave, can only travel through solids |
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| A tracing of earthquake motion that is recorded by a seismograph |
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| A sudden return of elstically deformed rock to its undeformed shape |
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| The fastest seismic wave, can travel through solids, liquids, and gases |
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| A scale that measures earthquake intensity |
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| An instrument that records ground vibrations |
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| A scale that measures amount of energy in ground motion |
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| Volcanic activity is frequent in |
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| Magma may sometimes break to the |
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| An area in which one lithospheric plate is being moved under another is called a |
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| A seismograph records energy released by an |
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| Temperature and pressure generally keep rocks in the astenosphere below the |
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| Pyroplastic Material is usually thrown from volcanoes that eject |
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| Most earthquakes occur near |
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| P waves moving through the Earth can travel through |
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| The earthquakes that cause the most damage usually have a |
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| The magnitude of an earthquake is an approximate measure of |
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| How much energy the earthquake releases |
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| Cinder cones are generally |
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| Much steeper than shield volcanoes |
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