8th Grade
Chapter 2
Understand what these are:
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Oxygen
Strike-slip fault
Shallow-focus earthquakes
Fold
Circum-pacific belt
Ring of Fire
Caldera
Focus
Epicenter
Volcanic bomb
Elastic rebound theory
Plate tectonics
Transition zone
P waves
Surface waves
Aftershock
Richter scale
Sediment
Magma chamber
Vent
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Lava tunnel
Magma
Pyroclastic flow
Pyroclast
Active volcano
Aa lava
Pahoehoe lava
Dike
Anticline
syncline
Dormant
Seismograph
Geology
Laccolith
Pangaea
Tectonic earthquake
San Andreas Fault
Thrust fault
Normal fault
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Be able to explain them. Know what they are; what they are made up of:
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The layers of the Earth
Types of volcanos
Types of mountians
Discussion –Give details, details
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Fixed-base, base-isolated, and energy dissipation devices