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Faults
Seismic Waves
Mountains
Volcanoes
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100
Form along divergent plate boundaries.
What are normal faults?
100
Also known as S waves.
What are secondary waves?
100
More than a mountain but less than a mountain belt.
What is a mountain range?
100
The name given to magma once it reaches Earth's surface.
What is lava?
100
Location where an earthquake causes the most damage.
What is the epicenter?
200
Also called a thrust fault, and has push stress.
What is a reverse fault?
200
Cause the most damage.
What are surface waves?
200
Mountains that form along convergent boundaries.
What are folded mountains?
200
Largest volcanic rock fragment.
What is a block or bomb?
200
The force exerted when an object pulls on, pushes against, or slides by another object.
What is stress?
300
Creates fault-block mountains.
What are normal faults?
300
Travel the slowest.
What are surface waves?
300
Forms from divergent plate boundaries.
What are fault-block mountains?
300
Type of volcano common to Hawaii with basalt lava flows.
What is a shield volcano?
300
A water wave triggered by an earthquake, volcanic eruption, or landslide.
What is tsunami?
400
Forms at convergent boundaries and has vertical movement.
What is a reverse fault?
400
Travel the fastest.
What are Primary waves?
400
Example of a young, steep, mountain belt in the United States.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
400
Type of volcano known to have violent eruptions because the lava composition is high in silica.
What is composite volcano?
400
Name for the belt of volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
The San Andres fault in California is an example, since the plates slide past one another in horizontal motion.
What is a strike-slip fault?
500
Travel through liquids, solids, and gases.
What are primary waves?
500
Oldest mountain belt in the United States.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
500
Dangerous combination of rock fragments and gas that slide down the mountain.
What is a pyroclastic flow?
500
Crater Lake formed in one, as a result of magma in a volcano cooling and leaving a depression.
What is a caldera?