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| a type of lava that forms a thick rough crust. |
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| a volcano that has erupted in the past 10,000 years, may be currently errupting. |
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a large, cauldron-shaped depressioncasued by the collapse of the groundwhen the magma chamber is empty. |
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| The most common and smallest type of volcano, usally not more than 300 m. |
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| a.k.a a stratovolocano, formed by a combo of lava flows and pyroclastic explosions that form alternating layers. they are steep and tall. Ex: Mt. Fuji Mt kilomigaro, and Mt. Rainer |
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| an indefinition at the top o a volacno. |
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| a vaolano that currently isn't active, but exexpted to erupt again. |
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a volcano that hasn't erupted in the past 10,000 years and isn't expected to erupt again.
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| magma that reaches the earths surface. |
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| volcanically active place that lie about mantle proturding |
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molten rock below the eaths surface. |
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| a large area deep underground filled with magma |
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| a column of hot rock that rises up to the surface from Eath's interior. |
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| a type of lava that forms a thin ropy crust when it hardens. |
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| a smooth, rounded type of lava flow that erupts underwater. |
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| a high temp mis of hot ash and fragments of lava that erupts with great force and speed. Pyroclastic flows are the most dangerous type of volvanic eruption, travling at the speeds up to 125 mph. with temps up to 700 degrees |
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| volcanoes that form from fluid lava that bulids up slowly over time, creating a wide, gentle slpoing mountain shaped like a worriors shield. Ex: Mauna Kea |
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| any materails ejeced durng a pyroclastic explosion regardless of size. |
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| an opening at the top or side of the volcano where lava eruptions. |
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| very small (less than 2mm or 0.08in) fragments of material that are ejected in a pyroclsric explosion. |
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| a tool used to measure wind |
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| a tool used to measure wind |
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| a device that measure pressure |
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| a body of air with the same temperature and moisture throughout |
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| a body of air with the same temperature and moisture throughout |
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| a quantity representing the amout of water vapor within the atomsphere |
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| a long narrow current of very strong winds in the upper troposhere |
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| a long narrow current of very strong winds in the upper troposhere |
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| global winds that flow towards the equator turning west as they go |
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| global winds that move west to east |
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| global winds that move west to east |
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| communication that someone has seen or detected a tornado |
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| communication that tornadoes are possible |
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| a massive roating storm that forms north of teh equator in the westen pacific ocean |
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| the movement and exchange of water between the earth's land an atmosphere and ocean |
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| the prosees by which water vapor fors gas to a liquid |
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| the prosses by which charges form a liqid to water vapor |
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| falling products of condenstation |
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| the passage of water through a plant |
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| a scientist who studies earthquakes |
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| it detects and measures the vibrations produced by an earthquake |
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| travels slower then a P-wave travels through the body of the earth as a seris of crust |
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| an earthquake that travels through the body of the earth |
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| a measure of the total amount of energy released at the souce of an earthquake |
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| a measure of damage done by an earthquake |
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| the location where a rupture of an earthquake begins and energy is relaesed |
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| a frature in bed rock along which blocks of rock on oppisite sides of the future |
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| the piont on the surface of the earth directly above the focus of an earthquake |
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| vibrations in the earth caused by the sudden released of energy |
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| an usally cold flow of water that occurs less then the El nino in the pacific |
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| an usally warm flow of surface that occurs in the pacific ocean every 3-7 years |
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| a flow of water in the ocean |
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| compactures mass and volume |
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| the thin blanket of gases that surrounds the earth |
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| the cool, solid outer shell of the earth |
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| layer of the mantle that lies directly below the lithosphere |
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| a huge sea wave caused by underwater earthquakes or by volcanoes |
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| an earthquake wave that travels on or near the surface of the earth |
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| a tool that measures how big an earthquake is |
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| a massive routing storm that forms in the Indian Ocean and off the coast of Australia |
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| a windless zone at the equator that causes low pressure |
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| global winds that go from east or west from the equators |
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| a circulating of air or water resulting from temp. differences |
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| the movement of liquids or gasses in a spiral around a central axis, the calm center in a storm |
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| to scale to measure hurricanes |
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| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
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| to scale or measure torrnadoes |
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| giant convection currents that circulate in the hemisphere |
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| the leading edge of a cold air front |
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| weather conditions that are characteristic of a region or of a particular place over a period of time. |
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crust- made up of basalt and granite(38km) solid/liqid
mantle- molten rock (2900km) solid
outer core-iron and nickle (2222km) liquid
inner core- iron and nickle (1228km) solid |
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| when a clod air mass and a warm air circulates |
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| a flow of air from land to water |
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| massive rotating storm in the northern hemisphere |
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| a warm-water ocean current that flows north along the east coast |
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| the flow of air from water to land |
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| a violent storm that spirals around a vortex |
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| a tool used to measure temperature |
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| part of the stratosphere that traps UV rays |
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| when a warm air mass overrides a cold one ahead |
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| the rising of cold deep water from the ocean |
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| the state of the atmosphere at a particular time and place |
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| the maximum limit to where a solid maybe stretched out |
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| a device to measure the intensity of an earthquake |
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| a scale to measure the magnitude of an earthquake |
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| a storm has been seen or detected |
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| a 810mi fault through California |
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| when 2 objects are being forced on to each other |
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| a space entirely devoid of matter |
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| to break off because of pressure |
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| the state of being stretched tight |
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| when two blocks of rock are pulled apart |
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| when two blocks of rock are being compressed |
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| a geographic location where tornadoes occur often |
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| when rock is parallel to the line of a fault |
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| says that storms in the N for right and in the S go left |
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| the seasonal winds blowing SW in the summer and NE in the witer |
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| the foremost part or surface of anything |
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| The region at the center of a hurricane |
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