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Misc.
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Mountains etc
Lat/Long Contours, etc
100
These are the 3 types of plate boundaries.
What are Convergent, Divergent and Transform.
100
These are the waves set in motion by an earthquake.
What are seismic waves
100
These are the 3 types of volcanoes.
What are Shield, Cone and Composite?
100
These are the 3 main categories of mountains.
What are Volcanic, Folded and Fault Block
100
The geographic location with the world's greatest number of earthquakes and volcanoes.
What is the Ring of Fire?
200
A reverse fault results from this boundary.
What is a convergent boundary?
200
The point where plates experience the fraction from an earthquake.
What is the focus?
200
These 2 things determine the nature of a volcanic eruption.
What are 'Viscosity' and 'levels of dissolved gas'?
200
Tall jagged mountains are most likely this age.
What is Young?
200
They indicate earth's shape and elevation on a map.
What are contour lines?
300
A normal fault results from this type of boundary.
What is a divergent boundary?
300
The point on earth's surface above the focus.
What is the epicenter?
300
This combination of factors causes big volcanic eruptions.
What are high viscosity and high levels of dissolved gas?
300
Folded mountains result from these boundaries.
What is Convergent?
300
When one contour line is 30 ft above sea level and the next contour line is 40 ft above sea level.
What is a 10 foot contour interval?
400
These seismic waves cause the most damage.
What are L waves?
400
These are the two categories of seismic waves.
What are Body Waves and Surface Waves?
400
Resistance of a liquid to flow.
What is viscosity?
400
Fault Block mountains result from these.
What are Divergent Boundaries?
400
Every 5th contour line (darkened)
What is an Index Contour?
500
These are the two types of seismic Body Waves.
What are P waves and S waves?
500
This determines if something has a high viscosity.
What are high levels of silica?
500
It is Zero degrees latitude.
What is the Equator?
500
Most earthquakes, volcanoes and mountains happen at these geologic intersections.
What are plate boundaries?