Vocabulary
The moving pieces on Earth that create a lot of geological movement.
What are tectonic plates?
Another name for a very large crack in the earth.
What is a fault?
This is what can happen when two oceanic plates diverge.
What is sea floor spreading or mid-ocean ridges?
Most of the world's volcanoes are located along this feature that has a shape in its name.
What is the ring of fire?
When an earthquake occurs underwater it may cause this.
What is a tsunami?
The melted rock inside a volcano is this.
What is magma?
The name of the most famous fault in the United States and the state that it is in.
What is the San Andreas Fault located in California?
This is what can happen when two continental plates converge.
What is a mountain?
All lava is the same. True or false?
What is false?
The name of the location where the rock breaks inside the earth.
What is the focus?
Name the three layers of the chemical composition model of the earth.
What is crust, mantle and core?
Mountains can form when two plates do this.
What is converge?
What is a trench or a volcano?
All volcanoes erupt due to this.
What is pressure?
This is the name of the location on Earth's surface above the focus.
What is the epicenter?
The top of a geologic fold and the bottom of a geologic fold can be called arches and smiles or these two words.
What are anticlines and synclines?
Most mountains in the world are this type of mountain.
What are folded mountains?
What is an earthquake?
Crater Lake is an example of this type of volcano that blew its top outward.
What is a crater volcano or crater?
Earthquakes occur when two plate boundaries do this.
What is transform?
Two ways that geologists describe the layers of the earth.
What are chemical composition and physical?
These type of mountains form on a fault that moves up and down.
What are fault block mountains?
The term used when one plate goes under another?
What is subduction?
Yellowstone is an example of this type of volcano that collapsed inward after it erupted.
What is a caldera?
The measurement used by seismologists to measure the energy in an earthquake.
What is magnitude?