Type of stress/volcano types
shear stress
What type of stress occurs at Transform boundaries?
A sudden movement of rock
How can an earthquake be created?
When two plates collide
What are convergent boundaries?
Formed at convergent boundaries and the rock layers squeeze together
What are folded mountains?
Alfred Wegener
Who created the idea of tectonic plates?
convergent
What boundary is compression found at?
The state made up of volcanos by hot spots
What is hawaii?
When two plates separate.
What is a divergent boundary?
Lava dries making land rise.
Ocean trenches
What deletes sea floor from the Earth?
Normal fault
What type of fault occurs at Divergent boundaries?
Mostly form a subduction zones
What are composite volcanos?
When two plates slide past each other.
What is a transform boundary?
Lithosphere drops having one tectonic plate being lower than the other, having one higher creating mountains.
How are fault block mountains formed?
dormant
What is it called when a volcano hasnt erupted in 400 years?
They are made of cinder and ash
What are cinder cone volcanos?
When two plates collide.
How are mountains formed?
They form mostly at transform boundaries.
Which boundary creates the most earthquakes?
chunks of large rocks on each side of the boundary.
What are fault blocks?
Viscosity
How do you measure the volcano´s eruption?
It can be created from hot spots
What are shield volcanos?
New crust is created here.
What are mid-ocean ridges?
San Andreas Fault
What famous fault is in California?
causes land to rise
What is uplift?
When it has reached Earth´s surface its called lava.
What is the difference between magma and lava?