Plate Boundaries
Faults
Seismic Waves & EQ
Earth
Volcanoes
100
A type of plate boundary where two plates slide past one another.
What is a transform boundary?
100
This type of fault occurs when the hanging wall moves up.
What is a reverse fault?
100
The seismic wave with particle motion parallel to the direction of wave motion
What are P-waves?
100
The outer, rigid layer of the Earth
What is the lithosphere?
100
The type of melting that occurs at oceanic-oceanic divergent boundaries?
What is decompression melting?
200
The mid-ocean ridge is an example of the type of feature you might find at this type of plate boundary.
What is a divergent oceanic-oceanic boundary?
200
The following side view is an example of this type of fault:
What is a reverse fault?
200
The most dangerous seismic wave
What are surface waves?
200
The composition of the asthenosphere.
What is mantle?
200
The type of melting that occurs at oceanic-continental and oceanic-oceanic convergent boundaries?
What is the addition of water?
300
A type of boundary where two plates come together resulting in volcanoes on the overriding plate.
What is a convergent boundary?
(oceanic-continental and oceanic-oceanic)
300
The following side view is an example of this type of fault:
What is a normal fault?
300
An Earthquake hazard resulting in objects sinking into the ground.
What is liquefaction?
300
A mechanical layer of the Earth that behaves as a liquid.
What is the outer core?
300
The three primary types of volcanic edifices
What are scoria cones, stratovolcanoes/composite volcanoes, and shield volcanoes?
400
The location where new oceanic lithosphere is created.
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
400
Reverse faults are associated with this type of plate boundary.
What is convergent?
400
The location on the surface of the Earth directly above an earthquake fault rupture
What is the epicenter?
400
The composition of the lithosphere.
What is the crust and outermost mantle?
400
The plate boundary with the most viscous magma
What is oceanic-continental convergent
500
At an oceanic trench, the two plates on either side of the plate boundary head in these directions.
What is towards each other?
500
The largest, most dangerous earthquakes occur at these types of plate boundaries (be specific).
What are convergent boundaries involving at least one oceanic plate.
500
The impact of an earthquake including ground shaking and human experience
What is earthquake intensity?
500
The composition of the oldest type of crust?
What is continental crust?
500
A magmatic property that determines the explosiveness of an eruption
What is the silica content