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August 29, 2003

Plate Tectonics and Volcano Pre Lab

1. What stress is most active at:

a) Convergent Plate boundaries?

b) Divergent Plate boundaries?

c) Transform Plate boundaries?

2. What are hot spots?

3. Do the hot spots move?

Volcano Handout

1. What are the 4 main kinds of volcanoes?

2. How tall are cinder cones?

3. How far above their base can composite volcanoes rise?

4. When did Mount Mazama erupt to form Crater Lake?

5. What is the depression called when a volcano collapses…i.e. Crater Lake?

6. How far above the ocean floor is Mauna Loa’s top?

Myths Studied for Tsunami Clues Article

1. When did the earthquake occur?

2. What was its magnitude?

3. Name the two creatures from the Native American legend.

4. How many “Megathrust” earthquakes have occurred over the past 3,500 years?

5. How high was the “orphan tsunami”?

6. Other than radiocarbon dating, what was the other dating method used?