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Grab Bag
100
Centers of low pressures are called
What is cyclones
100
San Francisco earthquakes are caused by this fault
What is the San Andreas Fault
100
Magma with high silica content, high viscosity, and higher gas content produce what type of eruption
What is a violent eruption
100
Major forces that form folded mountains are
What is compressional stress
100
Structures that form from the cooling and hardening of magma beneath the Earth's surface are called
What is pluton
200
Coriolis effect, pressure gradient difference, and friction are all factors that influence
What is wind
200
The place on the surface directly above the focus
What is the epicenter
200
Type of volcano built almost entirely from ejected lava fragments
What is a cinder cone
200
What type of mountains are most common at divergent plate boundaries
What is fault block mountains
200
Which type of landform develops at plate boundaries where one oceanic plate descends beneath another
What is volcanic island arc
300
This air resist rising
What is stable air
300
The kind of energy that is stored in rocks that is subjected to great forces
What is elastic energy
300
A volcano that is fairly symmetrical and has both layers of lava and pyroclastic deposits is called
What is a composite volcano
300
A mountain will ultimately be eroded to near sea level. This is caused by
What is isotasy
300
Tensional stresses commonly are found with what type of fault
What is normal faults
400
Continental tropical air masses are characterized by
What is hot and dry air
400
These are the most destructive seismic waves
What are L-waves or surface waves
400
Plays a major role in the forming of a volcano
What is magma composition
400
In mountainous regions the continental crust is
What is thicker than average
400
The boundary that separates two air masses
What is a front
500
What happens to the intensity of solar energy as latitude increases
What is decreases
500
A fracture in the Earth where movement has occurred
What is a fault
500
Volcanic landforms at divergent ocean plate boundaries
What is oceanic ridges
500
What type of mountains form at a continental-continental convergent boundary
What is folded mountains
500
What are the four major oceans
What is the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Indian, and the Artic