Impacts
How do plate tectonics cause earthquakes?
The plates shift causing the ground to shake
The highest mountain range in the world.
Hint: Mountain range at the Indus River Valley.
What are the Himalayan Mountains?
The molten material in the Earth's mantle.
What is Magma?
When plates move towards other plates
What is Convergent?
A volcano that has fast moving lava.
What is a composite or stratovolcano?
The most dangerous Earthquakes usually occur here.
What are transform boundaries?
This layer of the earth is hard, ridged, and is earth’s thinnest layer.
What is the crust?
The layer of the Earth which is subdivided into two, upper and lower.
What is the Mantle?
When plates move away from each other
What is Divergent?
A damaging impact (after effect) of ash clouds
What is acid rain?
What is the Ring of Fire
What is the most seismically and volcanic-ally active zone in the world?
The type of mountains often formed at plate boundaries.
What are Fold Mountains?
The positive impact volcanic activity has on surrounding areas for people living there.
What is fertile soil?
What are the 3 plate boundaries?
What are convergent, divergent, transform plate boundaries?
Fast moving ash steam and lava.
What is a pyroclastic flow?
The three major disasters plate tectonics cause?
What are Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes?
A deep-sided depression of the ocean floor
What is a trench?
This is what separates tectonic plates are called.
What are boundaries?
The plate boundaries that are found under oceans
What are oceanic plate boundaries?
What is a cinder cone?
How do plate tectonics cause tsunamis
Underwater earthquakes occur causing the ocean to shake and water to form a huge wave
It is the only liquid layer of the Earth.
What is the outer core?
This layer is extremely hot and solid.
What is the core?
The plate boundary that is located under continents
What are Continental plate boundaries?
Ancient trees that have been preserved from being covered in ash.
What is Petrified Wood?