Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Sea Floor
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A plate tectonic boundary that occurs when two plates slide past each other.
What is a transform boundary?
100
Fault line found in California that is the source of many earthquakes.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
100
The resistance to flow.
What is viscosity?
100
Trench found between the Pacific and Philippine Plate.
What is the Mariana trench?
100
Low viscosity results in this type of lava.
What is runny lava?
200
A type of plate tectonic boundary that occurs when two plates pull away from one another.
What is a divergent boundary?
200
The scale used to measure earthquake magnitude.
What is the Richter Scale?
200
Gradually sloped volcano formed at hotspots.
What is a shield volcano?
200
An area of seafloor spreading in the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the mid-Atlantic Ridge?
200
These can occur at any type of tectonic plate boundary.
What is an earthquake?
300
This "zone" is formed when one plate is pushed beneath the other.
What is a subduction zone?
300
The deepest earthquakes occur here, along trenches.
What are convergent plate boundaries?
300
The most common type of volcano; has lava of medium viscosity and low silica.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
300
This relationship exists between the depth of sediment and the distance from a spreading center.
What is a direct relationship?
300
This sphere concerns all the frozen water on Earth: icebergs, glaciers, snow, etc.
What is the cryosphere?
400
A type of plate tectonic boundary that occurs when two plates collide with one another.
What is a convergent boundary?
400
At convergent and transform boundaries, you will find earthquakes of this depth.
What are shallow earthquakes?
400
An increase in gases results in these types of eruptions.
What are more explosive eruptions?
400
Heat flows between two materials of different temperatures in this direction.
What is from high to low temperature?
400
This is the name of the deepest place on Earth.
What is Challenger Deep?
500
This geological structure is formed at divergent plate boundaries.
What is a ridge?
500
There is no relationship between earthquake magnitude and this.
What is depth?
500
Volcano type that has explosive eruptions with pyroclastic material.
What is a composite volcano?
500
Heat flow and distance from a spreading center has this type of relationship.
What is an indirect/inverse relationship?
500
This type of magma is found in shield volcanoes.
What is mafic magma?
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