Plate Boundaries
What type of plate boundary forms when two plates move apart?
What is a divergent boundary?
DOUBLE!!! What are the waves called that an earthquake produces?
What are seismic waves?
The big Mt. St. Helens eruption that caused a landslide and lots of destruction happened in what year:
What is 1980?
DOUBLE!!! What type of boundary occurs when two plates collide?
What is a convergent boundary?
TRIPLE!!! 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?
DOUBLE!!! The name of the fault line in California where the plates slide past one another.
What is San Andreas?
TRIPLE!!! 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 are the two types of seismic waves?
What is P waves and S waves?
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?
DOUBLE!!! 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?