Tectonic Forces
These depend on Geothermal Energy in order to occur.
What are internal processes?
Produced when rocks are subjected to stress forces.
What is Elastic Deformation?
A type of Earthquake caused by movement in the tectonic plates.
What is a Tectonic Earthquake?
A mixture of gases and water vapors that comes out through the cracks of a volcano.
What are Fumaroles?
The first types of waves to reach seismographs.
What are P-waves?
The motion of the flow of magma from the interior to the exterior of the crust.
What are convection currents?
The process through which rock is reshaped or bent.
What is Ductile Formation?
An Earthquake that occurs at the bottom of the ocean floor.
What is a Seaquake?
Springs from which hot water and vapor are expelled intermittently.
What are Geysers?
The second type of wave to reach seismograph.
What are L-waves?
Mechanical energy generated from the movement of magma and geothermal energy.
What are Tectonic Forces?
A break in the rock caused by tension.
What is Brittle deformation?
A product of the displacement of water due to deformation of the oceanic crust or submarine collapse.
What is a Tsunami?
The two main types of volcano in which all others are classified.
What are Fissure and Point volcanoes?
The two types of secondary waves that have horizontal and perpendicular movement.
What are Rayleigh and Love waves?
The theory that establishes that Earth is divided into plates.
What is Tectonics?
These are characterized by the position and shape of the layers of rock.
What are Geological Structures?
The point in the interior of the Earth from which an Earthquake originates the focus.
What is a Hypocenter?
Volcanoes formed by the accumulation of lava that flows easily.
What are Shield volcanoes?
The open scale with no limit that measures Earthquakes by calculating their seismic energy.
What is the Richter Scale?
The action of a body capable of changing the state of another.
What is a Force?
The following are examples of this concept:
Anticline
Syncline
Monocline
What is a Fold?
The point on the surface where an Earthquake originates from.
What is the Epicenter?
Volcanoes formed by flows of lava and pyroclastic rock organized in layers.
What are Stratovolcanoes?
The scale that measures seismic intensity on a scale between 1 and 12.
What is the Mercalli scale?