Stress
Faults
Plate Boundaries
Collision!
California
100
a break or crack in rock
What is a fracture?
100
sloping, slanting or leaning relative to the surface.
What is inclined?
100
type of plate boundary where 2 lithospheric plates are moving apart.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
100
the process in which one plate is forced down into the mantle
What is subduction?
100
type of plate boundary that formed the San Andreas
What is transform plate boundary?
200
a fracture on which onside of the break has moved relative to the other side.
What is a fault?
200
type of faults in places where plates are moving apart and the wall slopes at an angle
What is a normal fault?
200
type of plate boundary that occurs when 2 lithospheric plates collide
What is a convergent plate boundary?
200
Which plate subducts when an oceanic and a continental plate collide?
What is the oceanic plate?
200
The plates slipping past one another along the San Andreas?
What are the North American and Pacific Plates
300
type of stress when 2 plates move apart
What is tension?
300
type of fault in places where rocks are compressed and the wall is pushed up.
What is a reverse fault?
300
Mid-ocean ridge occur at this type of plate boundary.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
300
the factor that determines which plate sinks back into the mantle and which plate rises up on top.
What is density?
300
The North American plate is moving this direction
What is south east?
400
type of stress when 2 plates are squeezed together.
What is compression?
400
type of fault where the plates move past one another and produce shearing.
What is a strike slip fault?
400
type of plate boundary that occurs when 2 lithospheric plates slide horizontally past one another.
What is transform plate boundary?
400
neither plate subducts, the plates collide and rise up to form mountains.
What is continent to continent collision?
400
The Pacific Plate is moving this direction.
What is north west?
500
type of stress when 2 plates slide horizontally past one another.
What is shear?
500
type of fault the San Andreas is
What is a strike slip fault?
500
the process that pulls a continent apart
What is continental rifting?
500
A famous mountain range on the Asian continent forme by continent to continent collision.
What are the Himalayas?
500
Name the 2 plates colliding at the Cascadia Subduction zone.
What are the Juan de Fuca and the North American plates
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