Volcano
Mountain Building
Earths Layers
Boundarys
Other
100
Any place where gas, ash, or melted rock come out of the ground
What is a volcano?
100
Process by which rocks change shape under stress
What is Deformation?
100
Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Mesosphere, Outer core, and Inner Core
What are earths five physical layers?
100
Transform,divergent, and convergent
What are the 3 boundaries
100
Continents joined in a single large landmass
What is Pangaea?
200
The opening of a volcano
What is a vent?
200
Amount of stress per unit area that is placed on an object
What is stress?
200
Crust
What is earths outermost layer
200
When plates move away from eachother
What is a divergent boundary?
200
Its made of solid rock
What is the earths crust made of?
300
Location where a colum of extremely hot mantle rock rises through the athenosphere
What is a hot spot
300
Stress that pushes rocks in parallel but opposite directions
What is sheer stress?
300
Extends from below the mantle to the center of the earth
Where is the core?
300
When 2 plates move past each other horizontally
What is a Transform boundary?
300
Huge underwater mountain range
What is a mid ocean range?
400
Thick and mostly flattened layer of cooled lava
What is a lava plateau?
400
Stress that squeezes or pushes rocks together
What is compression?
400
Strong lower part of the mantle
What is the Mesosphere?
400
Mantle Convection, slab pull, and ridge push
What causes tectonic plates to move
400
Process by which molten rock from inside the earth rises through the cracks in the ridges which cools and forms new oceanic crust
What is Sea Floor Spreading?
500
An opening or depression at the top of a volcano caused byeruptions
What is a volcanic crater?
500
Form when rocks undergo compression
How do reverse faults form?
500
Core, mantle, crust
What are earths 3 layers
500
Boundaries form when 2 plates collide
What is conversion?
500
The evidence is ocean trenches, fossils, mountain ranges and rock formation
What is evidence for continental drift?
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