Plate Boundaries
It forms where two plates collide.
What is a convergent boundary?
What is a volcano?
Ground movements that occur when blocks of rock in Earth move suddenly and release energy.
The boundary that happens when two plates collide and a mountain is formed.
What is a convergent boundary?
The person who discovered the theory of plate tectonics.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
What is a divergent boundary?
The place within Earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs.
What is the focus?
The process by which rocks change shape under stress.
What is deformation?
It occurs when two plates slide past each other horizontally.
What is a transform boundary?
The place where molten rock in a volcano can form an area of magma.
What is a magma chamber?
Where seismic waves flow outward.
What is the epicenter?
When rock layers bend under stress.
What is folding?
What is Pangaea?
This fault occurs at convergent boundaries.
When a magma chamber empties and creates a larger basin-shaped depression.
What is a caldera?
A break in the crust which rocks move.
What is a fault?
A mountain formed by melted rock erupted onto the Earth's surface.
What is a volcanic mountain?
The process where new crust is being created by molten rock and pushes the older crust into deep ocean trenches.
What is sea-floor spreading?
This type of stress occurs at strike-slip faults.
What is shear-stress?
The location where a column of hot mantle rock rises through the asthenosphere.
What is a hot spot?
When rock goes to its original state after deformation and releases seismic waves.
What is elastic rebound?
When tension breaks the lithosphere into many normal faults.
What is a fault-block mountain?
When a plate is being subducted and pulls the rest of the plate underneath with it.
What is slab pull?