Geography
What is the Caribbean Plate?
A major earthquake that affected a popular geographical area in Jamaica, 1962.
What is the Port Royal Earthquake?
The margin with a "spreading" or "pulling-apart" movement of two tectonic plates.
What is a divergent plate margin?
A scientific theory that explains the large-scale movement of the lithosphere.
What are plate tectonics?
A land feature that allows the escape of magma and gasses to the surface.
What is a volcano?
An earthquake in 2010 that caused the death of 200,000 people, left 1.5 Million homeless, the destruction of the National Palace, Holy Trinity Cathedral, and Centre d'art Museum.
What is the Hatian Earthquake?
The margin with a "subducting" or "sinking" movement of two tectonic plates, typically the subduction/sinking of the denser plate.
What is a convergent plate margin?
An abnormally tall wave of water swiftly rushing across the ocean to make landfall.
What is a tsunami?
The topography (physical feature of the area) created by a divergent plate margin.
What are ridges/rifts?
An earthquake in 1995 that caused the eruption of a volcano, with last effects throughout 1995-1997, primarily burying the capital of Plymouth, Montserrat in ash and lava and forcing the evacuation of 60% of the total country population.
What is the Soufriere Hills Volcano?
The margin with a "lateral sliding" or "passing each-other by" movement of two tectonic plates.
What is a transform plate margin?
The classification of earhquakes that come after the initial, main earthquake.
What are aftershocks?
The topography (physical feature of the area) created by a Convergent Plate Margin.
What is a trench?
The tectonic "belt" of volcanoes and earthquakes surrounding the Pacific Ocean.
What is the ring of fire?
This force, stronger than a ridge push, drives plates by "pulling" them as dense oceanic crust sinks into the mantle at subduction zones.
What is a slab pull? - the pulling force on a tectonic plate that happens when the heavy, dense edge of an oceanic plate sinks into the mantle at a subduction zones.