CK12 Earth Science
The materials used to construct a structure affect its ability to weather an earthquake. The type of material that is best depen ...
Figure 7.48: Steel trusses were built in an x-pattern to retrofit a dormitory at the University of California, Berkeley. The bui ...
Of course, one of the biggest problems stemming from earthquakes is fire. Fires start because earthquakes rupture gas and electr ...
Keep several fire extinguishers around the house to fight the small fires that might break out. Be sure to have a first aid kit ...
In two earthquakes of the same size, what reasons are there that more people would be killed in a location further from the epi ...
(4) The two types of strike-slip faults.. GNU-FDL. (5) The Himalayas are the world’s highest mountain range.. GNU-FDL. (6) A sig ...
(28) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Monocline.JPG. GNU-FDL. (29) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AlaskaQuake-Turnagain.jp ...
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Chapter 8 Volcanoes 8.1 Volcanic Activity Lesson Objectives Explain how volcanoes form. Describe places where volcanoes occur. ...
Figure 8.1: Mount Merapi, Indonesia. ( 5 ) molten rock above the Earth’s surface. Because the temperatures at the Earth’s surfac ...
Where Volcanoes Occur Because volcanoes are vents for magma, it makes sense that volcanoes would be formed above underground mag ...
Figure 8.4: The Pacific Ring of Fire is where the majority of the volcanic activity on the Earth occurs. ( 27 ) Volcanic Hot Spo ...
Figure 8.5: The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is formed by divergent tectonic plates. ( 9 ) ...
Figure 8.6: A volcanic eruption in Iceland. ( 22 ) Figure 8.7: Hawaii is a volcanic hot spot. It was formed by volcanic activity ...
Divergent plate boundaries produce huge mountain ranges under water in every ocean basin. Volcanoes like those that form the is ...
8.2 Volcanic Eruptions Lesson Objectives Explain how volcanoes erupt. Describe and compare the types of volcanic eruptions. Dis ...
How Volcanoes Erupt All volcanoes share the same basic features. The magma collects in magma chambers that can be 160 kilometers ...
Imagine the devastation and force caused by the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki at the end of World War II in which over 40,000 pe ...
every 600 to 800 years. An eruption would most likely to create a large pyroclastic flow, and perhaps a lahar. However, the volc ...
Figure 8.12: When lava flows readily, pressure does not build up so great explosions do not occur. ( 31 ) go hiking near a volca ...
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