Landforms
This is a low land area between hills or mountains
What is a Valley?
This is the flattest part of the ocean.
What is an abyssal Plain.
Aside from earthquakes, this feature also commonly forms along plate boundaries
What is a volcano?
This type of plate rubs against each other in opposite directions, typically causing earthquakes.
What is a Transform plate boundary?
This instrument detects and records earthquakes.
What is a Seismograph?
This is an area with very little percipitation
What is a Desert?
This is an underwater mountain that rises from the sea floor but stops before it reaches the surface.
What is a Seamount?
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What is a mountain range?
These types of plates crash into one another, often forming mountains.
What is Convergent boundaries?
This is the fastest type of seismic wave that travels laterally through the Earth's crust and can travel through solids, liquids and gases.
What is a longitudinal wave?
This is a natural elevation of the Earth's surface, smaller than a mountain.
What is a Hill?
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What is a divergent plate?
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What are Earthquakes and Volcanos
This type of plate boundaries, separates from one another, often creating a rift valley when in the ocean.
What is a divergent boundary?
The place on the earth's crust that an earthquake originates.
What is the epicenter?
This type of landform is most likely to form where two convergent plates meet.
What is a Mountain?
Along the coast of the continent, the ocean floor is called the this.
What is a continental shelf?
When an Ocean plate slips under a continental plate, we will most likely see this.
What is a deep ocean trench?
The boundary around the Pacific plate is often called this because of it's many volcanos.
What is the Ring of Fire?
This seismic wave vibrates perpendicular to the direction the the energy moves, moving material up and down, often is the most damaging wave.
What is a Transverse wave?
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What is a Plateau?
Where two divergent boundaries separate, this is most likely to form.
What is a Rift Valley.
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What is the west coast being along a plate boundary?
California sees many earthquakes throughout a year because is sits along side this.
What is a transform plate boundary?
This causes the mantle to move, which in turn causes the movement of the tectonic plates.