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Human Tic Tac Toe: Question and Answers

Question #1

What are the three

types of magma?

 

Answer:

Andesitic, Rhyolitic,

and Basaltic 

 

Question #2:

What is the point within the earth

where faulting begins?

 

Answer:

 The focus

 

Question #3:

What are large fractures in

The earth’s crust called? 

 

Answer:

Faults

 

Question #4:

Give a location of where

sinkholes occur. 

 

Answer: 

Guatemala

 

Question #5:

What are the three

types of volcanic cones?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answer:

Shield cones,

Cinder cones,

and Stratovolcanoes

(or composite volcanoes).

 

Question #6: 

What is a seamount?

 

Answer: 

Underwater mountains

that are submerged islands.

 

Question #7: 

What two factors about magma

 control how big an eruption is?

 

Answer:

1.SiO2 content

2.Gas content

 

Question #8:

What method of getting rid of

radioactive waste did we

focus on the most? 

 

Answer:

Dumping it into

Deep ocean trenches

 

Question #9:

How fast can an avalanche travel? 

 

Answer:

They can reach 80 miles per hour

(130 kilometers per hour)

In about five seconds. 

 

Question #10:

What is the name of the

smaller earthquakes following

a major earthquake? 

 

Answer:

Aftershocks

 

Question #11:

What is an earthquake, anyway?

 

Answer:

The shaking/ vibrating caused by the sudden

release of energy within the earth. 

 

Question #12:

What are the two types of

body waves? 

 

Answer:

Primary waves and

Secondary waves 

 

 

Question #13:

What are a couple of ways to

prevent an avalanche from

becoming a natural disaster?

 

Answer:

1.To make smaller avalanches with

explosives.

2. To prepare and predict (study

the snow). 

 

Question #14:

How many earthquakes

happen in a year? 

 

Answer:

More than 150,000

 

Question #15:

What is the point

Directly above the focus on the surface

of the earth?

(think EQ’s) 

 

Answer:

Epicenter

 

Question #16:

What is the zone where

volcanic plates are moving

away from each other? 

 

Answer:

Divergent boundary

 

 

Question #17:

What is an avalanche?

 

Answer:

When a heavy layer of new snow

is on top of a weak layer. It

causes the weak layer to fracture, causing

large quantities of snow to break

loose as a single slab. 

 

Question #18:

What are the three

major causes of wildfires?

 

Answer:

1.Humans

2.Lightning

3.Volcanoes

 

Question #19:

What do you do if you

Were caught in an avalanche?

 

Answer:

Try to get off of the slab

 

Question #20:

Name three effects

of earthquakes. 

 

Answer:

1.Building collapse

2.Fires

3.Tsunamis

4.Ground failure

5.Landslides 

 

Question #21:

Which type of magma

is the most explosive?

 

Answer:

Rhyolitic magma

 

Question #22:

What scale are

earthquakes measured in?

 

Answer:

The Richter Scale

 

Question #23:

What are the four factors that

Must come together to produce a tsunami?

 

Answer: 

 

A tsunami is triggered by an earthquake

And occurs when a slab of the ocean floor

breaks vertically along a fault.

Can also occur by a landslide. 

 

Question #24:

Where do most earthquakes happen?

 

Answer:

The Circum Pacific Belt

 

Question #25:

Describe basaltic magma.

 

Answer:

Low SiO2,

Low gas content,

High temp.,

Low viscosity,

Shield cones,

Hawaiian Islands

 

Question #26:

What is the origin/meaning

Of the word tsunami? 

 

 

Answer:

Japanese.

Means “seismic sea wave”.

 

Question #27:

What are the names of the three

Types of lava? 

 

Answer:

Pahoehoe (ropelike)

Aa (Blocky)

Pillow (closed lava tube)

 

 Question #28:

What are some negative effects of volcanoes?

 

Answer:

Pyroclastics,

Wildfires,

Mudsildes,

Earthquakes,

Tsunamis,

Landslides

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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