Plate Boundaries
What type of plate boundary forms when two plates move apart?
What is a divergent boundary?
What are the waves called that an earthquake produces?
What are seismic waves?
What is the name of the molten rock that comes out of a volcano?
What is lava?
What type of boundary occurs when two plates collide?
What is a convergent boundary?
The force that creates or builds something
What is constructive?
What is the name of the boundary where two plates slide past each other?
What is a transform boundary?
The type of earthquake fault that moves side to side.
What type of volcano is Hawaii?
What is a hot spot volcano?
When one plate is forced beneath the other plate:
What is subduction?
The force that breaks down or destroys something.
A trench is formed at this type of boundary
What is the point on the Earth's surface directly above the earthquake's focus?
What is the epicenter?
What is the name of the area in the Pacific Ocean where many volcanoes and earthquakes occur?
What is the Ring of Fire?
A subduction zone forms at what type of boundary?
What is oceanic-continental convergent boundary?
The Grand Canyon formed from these processes:
What are weathering and erosion?
What feature forms at a divergent boundary in the ocean?
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
What type of boundary is most likely to experience earthquakes?
What is a transform boundary?
What is the name of the volcano in Hawaii that has been erupting for years?
What forms at a continental-continental divergent boundary?
What are mountains? OR What is basin/range?
What is the process where rocks are broken down by wind, water, or ice?
What is weathering?
The Himalayas are an example of what type of plate boundary?
What is a convergent boundary?
What is the name of the wave that moves through both solids and liquids during an earthquake?
What is a P-wave?
Mt. St. Helens formed along this type of boundary:
What is oceanic-continental convergent boundary?
What forms at an oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary?
What are volcanoes?
What is the process of sediments being moved from one place to another?
What is erosion?