Plate Boundaries
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Tectonic Features
Tectonic processes & impacts
100
2 plates moving towards each other
What is a convergent plate boundary?
100
Most famous Japanese volcano
What is Mount Fuji?
100
Japan 2011
What is the Tohoku Earthquake?
100
Underneath the volcano where lava originates.
What is the Magma Chamber?
100
Material released from volcanoes that acts as a natural fertiliser.
What is ash?
200
Also known as Divergent Plate Boundary
What is a constructive plate boundary?
200
sleeping volcanoes
What is a dormant volcano?
200
1995 Japan
What is the Kobe Earthquake?
200
Area of high altitude created by 2 colliding plates.
What is a fold mountain?
200
Released gases such as Hydrogen Sulfide and Sulfur Dioxide mix with moisture in the atmosphere to create this meteorogical
What is Acid Rain?
300
Earthquake producing plate boundary
What is a transform plate boundary?
300
A "flat" type of volcano?
What is Shield Volcano
300
Big wave created by undersea Earthquakes
What is a Tsunami?
300
Famous undersea feature that divide the Atlantic Ocean
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
300
Ash mixed with water to form this destructive process
What is a Lahar (mudflow)?
400
Famous faultline in California
What is the San Andreas Fault?
400
Volcano that destroyed Pompeii
What is Mount Vesuvius?
400
measurement of Earthquakes
What is Richter Scale?
400
Deep undersea feature created by 2 converging plates.
What is an Ocean Trench?
400
Driving force behind Tectonic movements.
What is a convection current?
500
Processs by which oceanic plate goes under continental plate
What is Subduction?
500
The majority of the Earth's Volcanoes
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
Point at which the 2 plates "snap" to create the shockwave.
What is the focus?
500
Area of high elevation created by a large layer of cooled lava.
What is a Plateau?
500
A famous past time and tourist activity in Japan as a result of volcanism.
What are hot springs?
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