Boundaries
Plates that are pulling away from one another.
What are divergent plates?
What is an igneous rock?
This tool is used to measure earthquakes.
What is a seismometer?
What is subduction?
In 1974, this day in February marks the date of Mr. Vedder's birth.
What is February 11th.
This type of plate boundary is also known as a Strike-slip boundary.
What is a transform boundary?
Compacting and Cementing are an integral process in forming this type of rock.
What is a sedimentary rock?
Doppler and radar are used to help predict this type of natural hazard.
What are tornadoes?
What are earthquakes?
This represents the "S" in SOAR.
What is Stand with Integrity?
Mid-ocean ridges and rift valleys are known to exist at this type of plate boundary.
What divergent plate boundaries?
This process is known to cause sedimentary rocks to break down into sediment.
What is weathering?
The ocean floor was measured by this type of instrument.
What is a sonar?
The theory of plate tectonics provides an explanation of this phenomenon.
Igneous rocks can be categorized as two different rocks, depending on where they form.
What are intrusive and extrusive?
This area is known for 75% of all active volcanoes on the planet.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Sediment is said to be ______ once it stops traveling.
What is deposited?
Seismometers can predict earthquakes and this type of ocean-based natural hazard.
What is a tsunami?
This movement of liquid rock drives plate movement.
What are convection currents?
This weather phenomenon occurs when water freezes in rock crevices, causing rocks to break down.
What is ice-wedging?
Volcanoes are usually prevalent at these plate boundaries.
What are convergent boundaries?
This type of igneous rock is said to have been formed from cooled lava.
What is an extrusive igneous rock?
This country is home to the first-ever recorded invention used to measure when an earthquake occurred.
What is China?
Oceanic trenches are formed at this type of plate boundary.
What is convergent?
This plate boundary formed the Appalachian Mountains.
What is convergent?