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Earthquakes
Earth's Interior
Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
Plate Tectonics
Volcanoes
100
How epicenters are found
What is triangulation
100
True/False The easier it flows the less viscous it is
What is true
100
Hypothesis that says the lithosphere is broken into pieces or plates that ride/float on the asthenosphere
What is plate tectonics
100
Zone where a plate is being subducted
What is subduction zone
100
What is the first part of a volcano starting from the bottom
What is magma chamber
200
Wave 1st to arrive in an earthquake
What is P-Wave
200
Resistance of liquid to flowing
What is viscous
200
What are the 3 types of plate boundary
What is divergent, convergent, and transform fault boundary
200
Volcanic arc where there is a convergent boundary on oceanic and continental crust
What is continental volcanic arc
200
Name the widest volcano
What is shield volcano
300
The actual point where rock breaks undersurface
What is focus
300
Where outer mantle ends and crust begins
What is Mohorovicic (Moho) discontinity
300
What makes the plates move
What are convection currents
300
When continental plates crumple up the form...
What are mountains
300
Which volcano only erupts once or twice
What is Cinder Cone Volcano
400
Name 3 types of destruction an earthquake makes
What is liqueifaction, tsunami, landslide, ground subsidence, uplift, fire
400
Name zones based on physical properties viscousity
What is lithosphere, asthenosphere, lower mantle, outer core, and inner core
400
A continental volcanic arc forms by which 2 plates
What is oceanic and continental plates
400
When mantle plume hits the lithosphere it creates...
What is a hot spot
400
A depression around a vent is called a ....
What is crater
500
The way scientist can determine the distance of the epicenter
What is the arrival of S and P waves
500
What makes the inner core solid
What is high pressure
500
A Transform Fault boundary makes what type of geologic formtions
What is offset
500
Scientist found out (due to ocean drilling) that the rocks closest to ridges are the ...
What is youngest
500
Name of a large area of magma that has hardened underground
What is Pluton