Volcanoes
Volcano that only erupts lava
What is a Shield Volcano
Type of waves that are surface waves
What are L waves?
Ocean to ocean convergent boundaries come together to form
What are trenches?
The rock above a fault plane is known as the
What is the headwall?
This layer of the Earth is made up of a plastic type flow
What is the Asthenosphere?
Volcanos that erupt lava and pyroclastic material
What is a Composite Volcano
The Himalayan mountains are a product of which type of convergence?
What is Continent to Continent?
When the headwall is lower than the footwall, this is known as a
What is a Normal fault boundary?
The core of the Earth is made up of
What is iron and nickel?
An example of a shield Volcano...
What is Hawaii?
Waves that are stopped by the liquid outer core forming a shadow zone
What are S Waves?
Iceland is an example of which type of margin?
What is divergent?
When the headwall is higher than the footwall, this is known as a
What is a Reverse Fault Boundary?
The four layers of the Earth according to the class model are?
Sticky lava that contains trapped gas bubbles
What is Felsic lava?
Compressional waves
what are P Waves
What does ocean-ocean convergence create?
What are subduction zones?
Shear is seen in this type of plate movement
Transform
Which two layers of the Earth are solid?
What is the core and crust?
Describe the formation of a caldera
What is an area above the magma chamber of a volcano that sinks due to a decrease in pressure.
Transverse waves
What are S Waves?
What is divergent, ocean-ocean convergent, ocean-continent convergent, continent-continent convergent and transform?
Which types of stress are associated with convergent and divergence?
What is tensional and compressional?
The three layers of the mantle with respect to the behavioral layer model are
What are the mesosphere, asthenosphere and lithosphere?