The stress forces that acts on divergent boundaries at mid-ocean ridge.
What is tension?
100
These are created when continental-continental crust collides
What are folded mountain ranges?
100
The type of stress that produces a transform fault.
What is shear?
100
The horizontal direction of a fault is its ______.
What is strike?
100
In what direction does warmer material move in a convection current?
What is the warmer material rises.
200
When continental-continental crust diverges, these landforms are created.
What is a rift valley?
200
Deep features that are formed in the ocean floor by the collision of oceanic-oceanic crust or oceanic-continental crust and found at the subduction zones.
What are trenches?
200
The way the plates move in relation to one another at a transform boundary
What is slide past each other in two opposite directions?
200
Where most major faults in the United States are found
What is a mountain ranges?
200
Architects have designed buildings that can withstand an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0. T or F
What is T?
300
An underwater chain of mountains created where oceanic-oceanic crust diverges
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
300
A chain of islands formed when oceanic-oceanic crust converges
What are volcanic island arcs?
300
The event that can take place when stress builds up is finally released at a plate boundary
What is an earthquake?
300
Daily Double !!! A reverse fault is a type of dip-slip fault T or F
What is true?
300
Daily Double ---1. At least how many seismic stations are needed to pinpoint an earthquake's epicenter?
2. Seismic waves ____ when they reach the bottom of the crust.
1. What is Two?
2. What is speed up?
400
This land form in Africa is created as the African Plate and the Somalia Plate diverge.
What is the East African Rift Valley (Great Rift Valley)?
400
The zone where the denser crust is forced back into the mantle to be recycled
What is subduction?
400
This fault is near the place where the North American and Pacific Plate share a transform boundary
What is the San Andreas Fault?
400
Daily Double !!!
The name of the longest strike-slip fault in southern California
What is San Andreas Fault?
400
The point in Earth's interior where the energy release of an earthquake occurs is the ____.
What is the focus?
500
Daily Double!!! --The only place the mid-ocean ridge (Mid - Atlantic Ridge) rises above the water
What is Iceland?
500
An example of volcanic mountains formed by the collision of continental-oceanic crust. (Nazca Plate - South America Plate)
What are the Andes Mountains?
500
Daily Double!!!
This does not happen at transform boundaries
What is subduction?
500
Faults involve visible movement of rocks but joints do not. T or F
What is T?
500
This mountain range formed when India converged with Eurasia