Study Guide for Natural Disasters Unit:
Part D: Earthquakes & Volcanos
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Date: _____________ Hour: ___
1.
What is an earthquake?
2.
What’s the difference between the focus and the epicenter?
3.
What is a fault?
4.
Look at page #20 in your text. Write out the definiton of ELASTIC
REBOUND THEORY. Then follow the diagram and make sure that you
understand it. This is one of the major points of the entire chapter.
5.
What is a foreshock….how about and aftershock?
6.
What is a P-Wave…draw one and describe it.
7.
What’s an S-Wave…draw one and describe it.
8.
What is a surface wave?
9.
Look at the picture on page #226. What do you think this diagram is showing
you? Please explain.
10.
What is the richter scale….what does it measure?
11.
Read section 8-3 (Pages 229-232). It speaks of earthquake destruction.
Please rank the “aftereffects” of earthquakes and put them in order of the most
damage caused to the least damage caused. We’ll discus this in class.
12.
Look at the picture on page #219 (bottom right)…what happened to the rows
of crops?
13.
What is a volcano?
14.
What does viscosity have to do with the severity of the eruption?
15.
What does the amount of dissolved gases have to do with the severity of the
eruption?
16.
What is pyroclastic material?
17.
Draw the anatomy of a volcano in the space below. Make sure to label it
properly.
18.
What is the difference between a crater and a caldera?
19.
There are 3 types of volcanos, DRAW each type, the DESCRIBE each type.
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20.
When people think of volcanos, they think of rivers of lava like we always see
on TV. What are some other ways that volcanos effect the environment.
(Think of air and water).