Continental
When plates move apart.
What are divergent boundaries?
These rock layers form a bowl shape.
What is a syncline?
What lava underground is called.
What is magma?
The scale used to measure the strength of earthquakes.
What is the Richter scale?
The boundaries will sometimes "snap" into place.
What are transform boundaries?
This kind of stress is when a small portion of the earth is being pulled apart.
What is tension stress?
This region of the Earth constantly wells up magma, even though it is not near a boundary.
An earthquake this powerful has never been recorded.
What Pangaea broke up into.
This is also known as "Folding."
What is deformation?
This is what geologists refer to the chain of volcanos surrounding the Pacific.
What is the ring of fire?
Earthquakes mostly happen at these boundaries.
What are transform boundaries?
Japan was created thanks to this boundary.
What is convergent boundary?
In this fault the hanging wall moves down in relation to the footwall.
What is a normal fault?
This is the kind of volcano you think of when you hear the word "volcano."
What is a composite volcano?
Where the Earthquake happens on the fault.
What is the focus?
The physics behind this geological phenomenon is similar to how a string would fall off a table.
That is Slab Pull?
This is the stress equivalent of a transform boundary.
What is sheer stress?
Mars has the largest one of these kind of volcanos in the solar system.
What is a shield volcano.
The part of the Earthquake humans are most effected by.
What is the epicenter?