Volcanoes
Terms
Earthquakes
Tectonic Features
Tectonic plates
100
Most famous Japanese volcano
What is Mount Fuji?
100
2 plates colliding into each other
What is converegence?
100
Type of earthquake producing plate boundary
What is a transform plate boundary?
100
Mountain Range in North America
What are the Rockiy Mountains?
100
2 plates that created the Andes Mountain
What is the Nazca & South American Plate?
200
Molten rock on the Earth's surface
What is Lava?
200
Magma rising to the Earth's surface
Vulcanicity
200
Name of the transform boundary that causes earthquakes in California
What is the San Andreas Fault?
200
Area of high land created by convergent plates
What are Fold Mountains?
200
More dense type of plate
What is oceanic plate?
300
Where most of the Earth's volcano's are found
What is Ring of Fire?
300
A line of weakness in rocks.
What is a fault?
300
8.1 earthquake
What is the Richter Scale?
300
Bowl typically on the top of volcanoes
What is the crater?
300
The largest plate
What is the Eurasian Plate?
400
A long line of volcanic mountains under the sea
What is an Oceanic Ridge?
400
Bending of rocks
What is folding?
400
Point of which pressure is released between 2 plates
What is the focus?
400
Deep sea feature as a result of the oceanic plate being dragged deeper into the earth.
What is an oceanic trench?
400
AKA convergent plate boundary
What is a destructive plate boundary?
500
Underground feature where lava is stored
What is the Magma Chamber?
500
The process that occurs when oceanic plate is forced under continental plate.
What is subduction?
500
The locaiton on the Earth's surface that is directly above the location where pressure is suddenly released between 2 plates.
What is the Epicenter?
500
Opening in the Earth's crust that allows magma to come to the surface.
What is a pipe?
500
The reason why plates on the Earth's surface moves.
What are convection currents?
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