When rocks change under stress, usually by bending or breaking/cracking.
What is deformation?
100
Tectonic plates move(either by colliding, sliding along each other, or moving away from each other) and cause a disturbance on the surface of the Earth. This is known as an earthquake.
How to tectonic plates affect/create earthquakes?
100
This type of fold is where the oldest rock is at the center of the fold and usually looks like an arch.
What does an anticline look like?
100
False, fissures flow out the entire length of the crack.
(Guess the incorrect sentence as the question)
True/False: Fissures flow out only a bit of the giant cracks.
100
Calderas form when the roof of a volcano collapses.
When the roof of a volcano collapses, what does it form?
200
When rocks return to their original shape after the stress is released.
What is elastic rebound?
200
Pangaea split into Laurasia and Gondwana, which later split into our continents now with the exception of Eurasia which is counted as a single continent.
What did Pangaea split into?
200
The youngest rock is found at the center of the fold and is usually looks like a bowl-shaped dent in rock.
What does a syncline look like?
200
Non-explosive eruptions occur when volcanoes have low viscosity.
When a volcano has low viscosity, what kind of explosion do we get? (Explosive, non-explosive)
200
Convergent boundaries usually have very explosive volcanoes.
Convergent boundaries usually have very ___ volcanoes.
300
They are mountains that uses tension to break the lithosphere into normal faults. The Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Tetons are examples of this type of mountain.
What are fault-block mountains?
300
Shear stress occurs at strike-slip faults.
When earthquakes happen at strike-slip faults, what kind of stress is occurring?
300
Tension is the type of stress associated with this kind of fault.
What kind of stress is associated with normal faults?
300
Hot spots usually form ___ volcanoes.
Shield volcanoes usually are formed from ___ ___.
300
At convergent boundaries, composite volcanoes are usually located there.
At convergent boundaries, what type of volcanoes are usually located there?
400
This is the tectonic plate on top(does not apply to vertical fault planes) of the fault.
Another is the tectonic plate below the fault.
What is the hanging wall/footwall?
400
The tsunami moves through the entire depth of the water first, then, when it moves towards the shore, the energy released pushes the water up above the water line.
Why can you not see a tsunami at the shore?
400
Folded mountains
What type of mountain form with rock layers are squeezed and pushed up?
400
False, pyroclastic materials are made of hot ash and bits of rock. (Guess the false statement as the question)
Pyroclastic material are made of thick gloops of lava.
(True/False)
400
Lava plateau(s) form wen flat plains of hardened lava (from fissures) cool.
___ ___(s) form when flat plains of hardened lava (from fissures) cool.
500
This is a flat plain of hardened lava from fissures.
What is a lava plateau?
500
The youngest rock is closest to the cracks, and the oldest rock is furthest away.
What type of rock is closest to cracks, and what type of rock is furthest from the cracks?
500
Fault Block
The Sierra Nevada Mountains are _________ mountains.
500
Shield/cinder cone volcanoes are usually located in Iceland.
In Iceland, what kind of volcanoes are usually located there?
500
Steep slopes form when lava with high viscosity cools.
When lava has high viscosity, what type of slope does it form after it cools?