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True or False: The lithosphere is located beneath the mantle of the earth.
False
True or False: The theory of plate tectonics explains that the earth's crust is made up of moving plates.
True
True or False: Hot springs occur in places when water is heated by hot magma
True
The area around the Pacific Ocean where many volcanoes occur is called the Ring of Fire
True
True or False: Volcanic fog is called smog
True
What type of fault occurs when rocks move horizontally past each other?
Strike-slip fault
What type of fault occurs when rocks push together, forcing a section of rocks upward?
Thrust, or reverse fault
What type of fault occurs when rocks move apart, forming a gap?
Normal fault
Vibrations of energy that flow from the focus of an earthquake are called...
Seismic waves
Fast moving waves that occur n=beneath the surface of the earth are called...
Body waves
What is the point on the earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake called?
Epicenter
Which are the lower destructive waves that occur on the surface of the earth?
Surface Waves
What scale do we use to measure the magnitude of an earthquake?
Richter Scale
we use this device to detect, time, and measure the movements of the earth.
Seismograph
Mud and rock fragments that surge down the mountain when part of the volcano collapses form a....
debris flow
What killed the people in Pompeii?
A pyroclastic flow
