Tectonic Plates
A massive, irregularly shaped slab of solid rock, generally composed of both continental and oceanic lithosphere
What is a tectonic plate?
Typically a natural land feature on Earth's surface that makes up an area's given terrain.
What are landforms?
A violent shaking in the ground that occurs when two or more tectonic plates suddenly slip past one another
This is the opening at which lava flows from the crust.
What is a vent?
This is the area in Earth's composition that tectonic plates are found.
What is the asthenosphere?
This theory states all of Earth's continent were all once a singular continent.
What is the Continental Drift Theory?
Rivers cut through land and give us these other two types of landforms.
What are canyons and valleys?
The plate boundary at which the tectonic plates slip causing the earthquake
What is the Fault Line?
This term is used from the molten rock that is underground.
What is magma
What is folding?
These are the three major tectonic boundary types.
What are convergent, divergent and transform?
The area that stretches between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains is known as this type of landform.
What is a Plain?
The point on Earth's surface that is directly above the origin of where an earthquake occurs.
What is the Epicenter?
These are the main three gas types observed during a volcanic eruption.
What are water vapor, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide?
This mountain type is formed when magma rises up from the mantle and pushes up on the rock layers.
What is a Dome Mountain?
This happens at convergent boundary types when a denser plate converges into a lighter plate.
What is subduction?
A process in which a section of the Earth's crust is folded and deformed by lateral compression to form a mountain range
What is orogeny?
This factor of an earthquake's focus is directly linked to the surface destruction
What is depth?
This type of eruption is mostly steam, due to the surrounding groundwater being rapidly boiled
What is Phreatic?
This volcano type is mounded and its typical hazards are pyroclastic flows, lava flows and gas emissions
What is a Lava Dome?
This is the equilibrium that exists between parts of the Earth's crust
What is Isostasy?
This mountain type is formed when tectonic plates slide past each other.
What is fault-block mountains?
Energy made of vibrations that travel through the Earth that are caused by movements in the Earth's crust.
What are seismic waves?
The Ring of Fire can be found in this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This type of mountain is formed when crust is uplifted causing rivers to carve away at the landscape.
What is a Plateau?