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Substance that makes magma more viscous
What is silica?
100
Large depression in at the peak of a volcano
What is a caldera (or crater)
100
Changes in the original shape or size of a rock body
What is deformation?
100
Process of forming mountains
What is orogenesis?
100
Ms. Scott's birthday
What is February 26?
200
A substance's resistance to flow
What is viscosity?
200
Structures that result from the cooling and hardening of magma at depth
What are plutons?
200
Three types of stress
What are tensional, compressional, and shear?
200
Type of convergent plate boundary that forms volcanic mountains
What is continental-oceanic?
200
2011-2012 KMHS prom queen
Who is Priscilla Jordan?
300
Objects ejected from a volcano
What are pyroclastic materials?
300
Four types of plutons
What are sills, laccoliths, dikes, and batholiths?
300
Three types of folds
What are anticlines, synclines, and monoclines?
300
The main result of divergent plate boundaries
What is seafloor spreading?
300
The year Ms. Scott started teaching at KMHS
What is 2008?
400
The most violent type of volcano
What is composite cone (or stratovolcano)
400
Confining pressure drops and rocks begin to melt
What is decompression melting?
400
A type of fault that results from shear stress
What is strike-slip fault?
400
Structures formed from downwarping
What are basins?
400
North American landmark that is constantly moving backwards
What is Niagara Falls?
500
Mudflows generated by volcanic eruptions
What are lahars?
500
A plate moves over a hotspot and magma is pushed to the surface; this can create volcanic islands.
What is intraplate volcanism?
500
A valley formed from the downward movement of a normal fault
What is a graben?
500
The crust rises and sinks because weight is added (mountian building) or taken away (erosion)
What is isostatic adjustment?
500
The dot over the letters "i" and "j".
What is a tittle?
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