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The Earth
Volcanos
Whats happening to the Earth
Misc.
100
The thin outermost layer of the Earth
What is The Crust
100
A place on Earth's surface that is directly above a column of rising magma called mantle plume
What is a Hot Spot
100
The type of stress that occurs when forces act to stretch an object
What is Tension
100
The fastest type of seismic wave
What is a P wave
200
The solid dense center of the Earth
What is The Inner Core
200
Magma that flows on the Earth's surface
What is lava
200
A fault in which the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall
What is Normal fault
300
The strong lower part of the mantle between the asthenosphere and the core
What is Mesophere
300
A large gently sloped volcano that forms from repeated, nonexplosive eruptions of lava
What is a shield volcano
300
A fault in which 2 fault blocks move past each other horizontally
What is Strike-skip fault
400
A peice of the lithosphere that moves around on top of the Asthenosphere.
What is Tectonic Plate
400
A volcano that forms from moderately explosive eruptions of pyrolastic material
What is a Cindercone volcano
400
The bending of rock layers due to stress in the Earth's crust
What is Folding
400
The process by which new oceanic lithosphere is created at mid-ocean ridges as older materials are pulled away
What is sea-floor spreading
500
The boundary between 2 tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
What is Transform Boundary
500
The point of the Earth's surface directly above the earthquake's starting point
What is an Epicenter
500
A fault in which the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall
What is reverse fault