Mountain Building
Process were rocks change shape under stress.
What is deformation?
Has not erupted in a long time.
What is dormant?
The center of earth.
What is the core?
Who was the first person to purpose Pangaea?
Who is Alfred Wegener?
Shear stress creates __________ boundary.
What is transform?
A place were gas, ash, or lava comes out of the ground.
What is a volcano?
The area between crust and core.
What is the mantle?
What do plate tectonics build off of?
What are continental drifts?
Crack that forms when large blocks of rock break and move past each other.
What is a fault?
A colum of hot mantle.
What is a mantle plume?
What is the thickest type of crust?
What is continental crust?
Oceanic crust is ________.
What is thinner than continental crust but more dense?
Process that can cause land to rise and can also tribute to mountain building.
What is a uplift?
Hardened piece of lava fall around a small vent.
What is a cinder volcano?
The lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, outer core, and inner core.
When two plates move away from each other.
What is a transform boundary?
Stress that stretches and pulls rock apart.
What is tension?
Hot ash and bits of rock.
What is pyroclastic materials?
Liquid layer of Earth's core.
What is the outer core?
Where two plates collide.
What is a convergent boundary?