Volcanoes
How do volcanoes form at diverging plates?
Magma escapes through the plates.
Earthquakes are most often caused by what?
Tectonic plates grinding against each other
Geyers form when water seeps down into opens in the ground about what?
The magma chamber
This is the natural wearing down of rocks or soil that are then moved somewhere else.
Erosion
What is magma called when it reaches the Earth's sufrace?
Lava
How do volcanoes form at converging plates?
The sub-ducted plate melts and magma can escape through a rupture.
Where do earthquakes most commonly occur?
Hot water in a geyser often turns into this.
Steam
This is the term for when eroded materials and end up in a new place.
Deposition
This layer of the Earth is made up of the earth's crust.
Lithosphere
Volcanoes that form away from plate boundaries occur in these areas?
Hotspots
An earthquake releases energy in what kind of waves?
Seismic waves
Steam causes what to increase in a geyers?
The pressure
Name 3 things that can cause erosion.
Wind, water, ice melting
What are the three categories of evidence that we know of, that prove Continental Drift Theory.
Landform, Geology, Fossil
Below a volcano is a pool of magma called what?
The magma chamber
What is used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake?
Richter Scale
This heats the water but does not usually erupt from a geyser.
Magma
When ice with rock particles erodes the land, this is called.
Abrasion
What kind of convergent boundary typically causes underwater volcanoes?
Oceanic-oceanic
What do you call the "part" of the volcano that magma escapes from?
Vent or side vent
What is the term for the movement of rocks or a large mass of land, down a slope?
Landslide
Where is Old Faithful?
Yellowstone National Park
These are formed from larges amounts of deposited rocks, minerals, and debris.
Outwash plains
What kind of boundary exists where two tectonic plates are sliding past one another?
Transform boundary