Transform Boundaries
Divergent Boundaries
Convergent Boundaries
Volcanoes
EarthQuakes
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What is Transform Boundaries
Where two plates grind past eachother along what are called strike-slip-faults.
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What is Divergent Bounaries
Regions where two tectonic plates are moving apart
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What is Convergent Boundaries
Two tectonic plates are moving toward eachoher
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What is a volcano?
lava, bombs , ashflows, and tephra
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What Causes Earthquakes?
Constant movement between the Earth's plates.
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Transform faults always form _____ to the spreading direction
PARALLEL
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Iceland is located along:
A divergent boundary
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This type of plate boundary has deep focus earthquakes
convergent plate boundaries
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What is an "eruption" ?
when magma rises from its source or from a storage reservoir and finally reaches the Earth's surface.
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What is a seismometer
Is a sensor place in the ground to detect vibration of earthquakes
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Oceanic crust is neither created nor destroyed along this type of boundary
TRANSFORM
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Oceanic crust is destroyed along _______
CONVERGENT
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Where is the largest active volcano in the world?
Where is the largest active volcano in the world? Mauna Loa (Hawaii) is the world's largest active volcano, projecting 13,677 feet above sea level, its top being over 28,000 feet above the deep ocean floor.
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A instrument that records the vibration
What is seismograph
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What is most likely associated with an oceanic transform plate boundary
mid-ocean ridge
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Divergent boundaries are zones where plates _________
move away from each other
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What is most likely associated with a convergent plate boundary?
oceanic trench and mountain belt or island arc
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Where did the term "volcano" come from?
The word "volcano" comes from the little island of Vulcano in the Mediterranean Sea off Sicily.
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What is seismogram
the recording of the earth vibration made by a seismogramWhat
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Earthquakes are located at_____________Boundaries
TRANSSFORM
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.New oceanic crust forms at _________
DIVERGENT
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The Andes mountains were generated at a(n) ____________ boundary
convergent (oceanic-continental)
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How much of the Earth is volcanic
More than 80 percent of the Earth's surface -- above and below sea level
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When was the seismogram invented
in 1887 the seismogram was inventedWhen
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