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Formed when two continental plates converge. High in elevation. Named Rocky, Himalayan, Atlas, Appalachian...
What is a mountain range?
In time, ash fall from this 1980 eruption was reported as far away as Minnesota and Oklahoma, and some of the ash drifted around the globe within about 2 weeks.
What is Mt. St. Helens?
This famous fault line is located in southwestern California. It is responsible for 1906 San Fransisco earthquake.
What is the San Andres fault?
This forms when two ocean plates diverge. They are formed when magma flows between the crack(s). Found in the Mid-Atlanic.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
This invention in 1834 directly led to the Industrial Revolution. The device includes an electrical source, an electromagnet, a permanent magnet, an armature...
What is a motor?
Formed when a continental plate converges with an oceanic plate. Magma rises when ocean plate sinks. Found in the Cascades, Andes, Cordillera Neo-Volcánica...
What is a volcanic range?
On 24 August, Mt. Vesuvius erupted ash, mud and toxic gases, completely burying this nearby city in Italy.
What is Pompeii?
This boundary produces only earthquakes.
One happened in The Great Rift Valley in eastern Africa, measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale in 2005.
What is an earthquake?
He developed 3 laws of motion, one being the Law of Inertia.
Who is Issac Newton?
Formed when a continental plate and oceanic plate converge. They are deep and underwater. Aleutian, Java, Mariana...
What is a trench?
In 1883, this event in Indonesia had an explosive force of a 200-megatonne bomb, killing more than 36,000 people and cooling the entire Earth by an average of 0.6°C for months to come.
What is a volcanic eruption?
This boundary is characterized by tectonic plates sliping past each other.
What is transform?
The mid-Atlantic ocean ridge is forming due to the Eurasian plate diverging from this tectonic plate.
What is the North American Plate?
A crash occuring at this relative speed is considered a safer crash.
What is slow?
Occurs when two ocean plates collide. A tsunami may occur afterwards. Could happen along the Aleutian Island chain, Japan, Phillippine islands...
What are earthquakes?
On March 11 2011, a Mw 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered a powerful tsunami in this ocean with waves that may have reached heights of up to 40.5 meters.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Earthquakes that occur at ocean-ocean or ocean-continental convergent boundaries can result in the formation of this dangerous secondary phenomenon.
What is a tsunami?
These can form between two plates that are diverging away from each other. Examples include Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Nyiragongo in eastern Africa.
What are volcanoes?
Examples of this type of energy includes light, gamma rays, x-rays, ultraviolet rays, radio waves, microwaves, and infrared.
What is radiant?
Made when when two continental plates converge. They are flat and high in elevation. Located in Tibet, Colorado, Australia...
What is a plateau?
On 26 December 2004, a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.1–9.3 Mw struck with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, located in this country.
What is Indonesia?
This boundary is responsible for 80% of all earthquakes globally. In March 2011, the 9.0 magnitude Tōhoku earthquake struck off of northeastern Japan.
What is convergent?
This can form when two continental plates diverge from one another. There is one located in eastern Africa.
What is a rift valley?
This type of wave interference results in lower volume sound.
What is destructive?