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What is the boundary where plates collide?
What is convergent
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A agroup of mountain ranges that are adjacent
What is Mountain System
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Volcanically active areas that lie far from techtonic plate boundaries
What is Hot Spots
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Earthquakes with shallow foci takes place within how many km of earths surface?
What is 70
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S waves are also know as what?
What is Shear Waves
200
Destroyed Japan after the Earthquake
What is Tsunami
200
Fault zone in California
What is San Andreas Fault
200
Another name for underea mountain Ranges
What is Mid-Ocean Ridges
200
German scientist who came up with a hypothesis that is now called Continental drift
What is Alfred Wegener
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The theory that explains why and how continents move
What is Plate Tectonics
300
Process by which a continent breaks apart
What is Rifting
300
Himilaya Mountains formed when India began colliding with what country?
What is Asia
300
Super Continent that formed 300 million years ago
What is Pangea
300
Mount everest is par of what mountain range?
What is Great Himilaya Range
300
Name 2 types of mountains
What is Dome mountains, fault block mountains and Grabens
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P-waves or primary waves are also know as what?
What is Compresstion waves
400
An instrament that records vibrations in the ground
What is Seismograph
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Measure of the strenght of an earthquake
What is Magnitude
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Giant ocean wave
What is Tsunami
400
Locations on earths surface where no body waves form a particular earthquake can be detected
What is Shadow Zones