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| In a normal fault which part is above the other part? Foot Wall or Hanging Wall? |
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| A fault block mountain is land between what two faults? |
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| A focus is where an earthquake occurs above or below the Earth's crust? |
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| What seismic wave expands and contracts like an accordian? |
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| What scale tells how much earthquake damage was done to home or buildings? |
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| What measures ground movements caused by seismic waves? |
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| Side to side with little up or down motion |
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| A strike slip fault moves what way? |
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| When stress between opposite sides of the fault are high. |
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| How does folding in the crust occur? |
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| What seismic waves can travel through liquids and solids? |
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| scaleWhat scale estimates the total energy released during an earthquake? |
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| How did the Hawaiian Islands form? |
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| Viscosity of magma depends on temperature and _____________. |
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| Magma high in silica can cause what type of eruption? Explosive or quiet? |
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| What type of lava flow (aa or pahoehoe) is fast moving? |
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| What fault has rocks that move in opposite directions? |
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| Earthquake resistant building |
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| A type of building that absorbs energy from seismic waves is called ____________. |
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| What fault has the stress of compression and a hanging wall up; foot wall down? |
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| Flexible (able to bend and twist) |
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| Buildings in earthquake zones should be built stronger and more _____________ than other buildings. |
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| What volcano is made of ash, cinders, and bombs? |
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| What helps to determine is magma will flow easily? |
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| What seismic wave travels on Earth's surface and rolls like ocean waves? |
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| What scale measures the strength of an earthquake based on seismic waves and movement of faults? |
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| What seismic wave vibrates from side to side as well as up and down? |
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| Mountains are caused by what kind of plate boundary? |
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| Greater the viscosity of a liquid the _________ it flows. |
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| A pyroclastic flow occurs during an explosive or quiet eruption? |
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| The Ring of Fire is located near what ocean? |
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| Transform boundary; shearing |
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| Name the boundary and stress that goes with a strike-slip fault. |
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Divergent boundary; tension |
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Name the boundary and stress that goes with a normal fault. |
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| Convergent boundary; compression |
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| Name the boundary and stress that goes with a reverse fault? |
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