Earth's interior
What is in the center of the Earth?
The crust.
At a ___ boundary, two plates move away from each other.
Divergent
____ mountains form when rock layers are squeezed together and pushed upwards.
Folded
The _____ cone volcano is the most common/simple type of volcano.
Cinder
____ ____ ____ is the process of getting new sea floors.
Sea-floor-spreading
The ____ is located between the core and the crust.
Mantle
At a ____ boundary, two plates move past each other horizontally.
Transform
_____ mountains form when melted rock erupts onto earth's surface.
Volcanic
The ___ volcano is flat, broad, and overall large.
Shield
_____ _____ is newly formed rock at a mid-ocean-ridge is warm and less dense than older, adjacent rock
Ridge Push
The strongest part of the mantle is called the ____.
Memosphere.
_______ boundaries form when two plates collide.
Convergent.
___ ____ mountains form when tension makes the lithosphere break into many normal faults.
Fault Block
______ are oval shaped depressions which are cause by the collapse of a volcano, but inwards.
Calderas
At _____ _____, a denser tectonic plate subducts, or sinks, beneath another less dense plate.
Subduction zones
What part of the core is responsible for Earth's Magnetic field?
The Outer Core
____ stress is stress that pushes rocks in parallel but opposite directions.
Shear
____ appears when rock layers bend under stress.
Folding
The _____ volcano has steep sides
Composite
The process by which heat is transferred rising through the mantle is called.
Mantle Convection
The ____ is a layer of weak or soft mantle that is made of rock that flows slowly.
The asthenosphere.
____, stress that squeezes pushes rock together.
Compression
____, a process that can cause land to rise, can also contribute to mountain building.
Uplift
Another way a volcano can be formed (not most common) is _____ ______.
Magma plumes
___ _____ ____ form along cracks in the Earth's crust.
Mid-ocean ridges.