Earth Science: Tectonic Plates, Earthquakes, & Volcanoes

What is the type of technology that records ground movement of earthquakes?

Volcanoes can be predicted using chemical sensing technology. What do chemical sensors measure?

What is it called when two plates collide?

A volcano that is broad with gentle slopes and is made from lava that flows from vents.

What can erupting volcanoes trigger?

When two plates pull apart.

An instrument that uses seismograph data to measure the magnitude of an earthquake.

A volcano that has not erupted in a long time but there is a possibility it can erupt in the future.

How many moving plates are there?

What type of plate movement is this?

What type of volcano is this?

What is another word for Earth's surface?

A volcano that is tall and narrow with steep slopes and is made of rock, ash, and other solid materials.

Melted or molten rock beneath Earth's surface.

What type of volcano is this?

This type of plate movement creates valleys, ocean trenches, and volcanoes.

An instrument used to detect and record the movement on the ground from earthquakes.

What type of plate movement is this?

What type of process is an earthquake?

What type of plate movement is this?

What type of volcano is this?

Which of the following is NOT an earthquake building code?

When two plates slide against each other.

What causes volcanoes to erupt?

A volcano that is wide with steep slopes and is made from alternating layers of lava and ash.