Mountain Building
Earthquakes
Locating Quakes
Volcanoes
100
Most mountains form at or near plate boundaries especially those where two plates push together.
Where do mountains form?
100
Where do Normal Faults occur?
In places where earth's crust is being stretched.
100
What is the Epicenter?
the quake where the quake is most strongly felt and the damage is greatest.
100
What is lava
The magma that reaches the earths surface
200
What are erosion mountains?
Mountains formed entirely by weathering and erosion.
200
What are Seismic Waves?
A released energy that was released in waves in all directions
200
Forces of ______, ______, and ______ all helped shape the gentle hills of the Catskills
Glaciers, Rivers, and Gravity
200
What is subduction?
A geologic process in which one tectonic plate sinks beneath another
300
What is a mountain that forms from a block of crust that is pushed upward or downward along a fault?
Fault Block Mountain
300
What is a seismograph?
A device that detects or measures an amount of ground motion.
300
What is Magnitude?
The amount of energy that an earthquake releases.
300
What is a continental-continental-boundary?
When two plates of bothe made if continental crust collide
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