Vocabulary
Boundaries
Landforms
Faults
Volcanoes
100
The seismic wave that moves the slowest
What is S-wave
100
New crust forms along a
What is Divergent boundary
100
Landform that occurs on a divergent boundary between two oceanic plates
What is Mid-Ocean Ridge
100
The fault that occurs on a convergent boundary
What is reverse fault
100
The three types of volcanoes
What is composite, shield, cinder cone
200
Measures an earthquake's intensity based on the observed effect of people and structures
What is Mercalli Scale
200
Crust is neither destroyed nor formed along
What is transform boundary
200
What landform occurs on a divergent boundary between two continental plates
What is a Rift Valley
200
Fault that would occur on a transform boundary
What is Strike and Slip Fault
200
This type of volcano is formed over subduction zones
What is composite
300
Point on earth's surface directly above the focus
What is the epicenter
300
The three types of boundaries are
What is convergent, divergent and transform
300
Landform occurs during an oceanic-oceanic collison
What is Ocean trench
300
Type of fault that occurs on a divergent boundary
What is Normal Fault
300
This type of volcano is formed off of other volcanoes
What is cinder cone volcano
400
The mathematical measurement of the intensity of the ground shaking, measured by seismographs
What is Richter scale
400
The observation that continents fit together like puzzle pieces led Wegener to propose this theory
What is continental drift
400
The landform occurs during an oceanic-continental collision
What is ocean trench or volcano
400
The two types of "walls" that occur on fault
What is hanging wall and footwall
400
This type of volcano forms over hotspots
What is Shield
500
The push and pull waves that travel through solids, liquids and gases
What is P-waves
500
The continents are moving apart due to magma rising out of mid-ocean-ridges this is called
What is seafloor spreading
500
Landform that occurs on continental-continental collision
What is Folded Mountains
500
Point on the fault that is inside of the Earth during an earthquake
What is the focus
500
The three characteristics of a volcano
What is how it is made, the kind of lava, and how it erupts
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