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Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Vocabulary
Mountains
100
The Himalayas are an example of this kind of plate boundary
What is Convergent
100
A sudden movement of blocks of rock.
What is an Earthquake?
100
Where magma collects before erupting.
What is the chamber?
100
Very fine, powdery tephra.
What is Ash?
100
Mountains that occur along continental-continetal plate boundaries.
What is folded mountains?
200
The San Andreas fault is located at this plate boundary.
What is Transform boundary?
200
Three seismograms.
What is the number of seismograms needed to locate the epicenter of an earthquake?
200
The componet of magma that determines how explosive it is.
What is silica content?
200
Ropey lava
What is pa'hoi'hoi'?
200
The tallest mountains in the world, occur at a continental-continental plate boundary.
What is Himalayas?
300
An example of a divergent plate boundary.
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
300
The place inside Earth where the rock breaks and moves.
What is the focus of an earthquake?
300
Where volcanoes can occur far away from a plate boundary.
What is a hot spot?
300
the most dangerous volcanic event.
What is Pyroclastic flow?
300
Mountains that occur where continent is being rifted.
What is fault-block mountains?
400
A collision occurs at this plate boundary.
What is Continental-continental boundary?
400
The location on the surface of Earth directly above the focus.
What is the epicenter?
400
The most explosive type of volcano.
What is composit or strato-volcano?
400
Low silica, low profile volcano.
What is shield volcano?
400
Mountain chain occuring along the west coast of South America.
What is Andes Mountains?
500
Evidences for Continental Drift.
What is Fossils, Climate and Geology?
500
Location of one of the strongest earthquakes in the US, not at a plate boundary.
What is New Madrid, MO?
500
A volcanic island remnant in Missouri.
What is St. Francious mountains?
500
Term for solid ejecta from a volcano.
What is tephra?
500
The longest mountain range in the world, usually seen only on maps.
What is Mid-ocean ridge?