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Plate Tectonics 1
Plate Tectonics 2
Volcanoes
California Geology 1
California Geology 2
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when two ocean plates run into each other
What is a convergent plate boundary?
100
where sea water seeps into cracks of the mantle and gets super heated
What is a hydrothermal vent?
100
a place where molten rock rises above the mantle
What is a volcano?
100
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How many geomorphic provinces in California?
100
igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic
What are rock types?
200
when two plates slide past each other
What is a strike-slip boundary?
200
an organism in the ocean that uses the bacteria in its body for food
What is a tube worm?
200
magma chamber collapses on itself
What is a caldera?
200
province with the some of the youngest rocks
What is the Great Valley?
200
fracture in Earth's crust where rocks move
What is a fault?
300
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
What is an example of a divergent plate boundary?
300
As you descend (go down) into the ocean, this increases along with pressure.
What is boiling point?
300
mount st helens
What is an example of a composite volcano?
300
northeast and southeast
Where are most volcanoes found in California?
300
northern mountains made of old metamorphic rocks
What is the Klamath range?
400
convection currents of hot and cooled magma
What causes the plates to move?
400
youngest hawaiian island
What is the big island of Hawaii?
400
slope, volume, temperature, channel size
What affects lava flow?
400
north-south direction
In what direction do faults run in California?
400
serpentine
What is California's state rock?
500
this will disappear in the future if the african plate collides with europe
What is the mediterranean sea?
500
a plate moves over this part of the mantle where magma erupts
What is a hot spot?
500
granitic lava
What is the most explosive type of lava?
500
Klamath, Sierra Nevada and Pennisular Ranges
Where are granitic rocks most common?
500
ranges along the California coast
What are the Coast, Pennisular and Transverse ranges?