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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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