Vocabulary
Where two tectonic plates move away from each other.
Divergent Boundary
The rupture and sudden movement of rocks along a break or crack in Earth’s crust.
Earthquake
A vent in Earth’s crust through which molten rock flows.
Volcano
These mountains are made when two tectonic plates collide.
Fold Mountains
When volcanoes erupt, they create this.
Crust.
Where two plates move towards each other.
Convergent Boundary
A wave that forms when an ocean disturbance suddenly moves a large volume of water.
Tsunami
Most volcanic activity happens here.
Divergent Boundary/Seafloor spreading.
These types of mountains are created at a divergent boundary.
Fault-Block Mountains
Convergent boundary.
Where two plates slide past each other in opposite directions.
Transform Boundary
The rapid downhill movement of soil, loose rocks, and boulders.
Landslide
A curved line of volcanoes that forms parallel to a plate boundary.
Volcanic Arc
The Andes mountains are fold mountains that have been created because the oceanic plate dives under the continental plate in the process known as this.
Subduction
60% of Earth's volcanic activity, mid-ocean ridges, and fault-block mountains are created here.
Divergent boundary.
A round depression formed on the surface of a planet, moon, or other space object by the impact of a meteorite.
Impact Crater
An area of many fractured pieces of crust along a large fault.
Fault Zone
Volcanic arcs happen on land because of this.
Subduction
This process makes mountains wear down and become shorter.
Weathering and Erosion
Earthquakes are primarily at this plate boundary.
Transform boundary.
A crack, or break, in Earth's surface.
This famous fault zone located in California.
San Andreas Fault
The Hawaiian Islands are this type of volcano.
Hot spot.
The longest mountain range in the world.
The Andes Mountains.
A volcanic belt surrounding the Pacific Ocean.
The Ring of Fire