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Mountain Building
Earthquakes
Locating Quakes
Volcanoes
100
A ____ ______ forms where continental plates collide, causing the crust to fold and crumple.
What is fold mountain?
100
Name three fault groups.
What is normal, reverse, and strike-slip faults?
100
The point on the surface directly above the focus is the ____.
What is epic center?
100
______ is magma that reaches Earth's surface.
What is lava?
200
At divergent boundaries, ____ rises up in the gap between where to plates that are pulling apart.
What is magma?
200
___ ____ cause the motion that is felt as an earthquake.
What is seismic waves?
200
The amount of energy that an earthquakes releases.
What is magnitude?
200
Name three types of groups of volcanoes.
What is shield,cinder,composite volcanoes?
300
Volcanic activity often happens at ______ boundaries>
What is convergent?
300
The stress that becomes so great that rocks break, the plates shudder and jolt into a new position, it causes _____.
What is earhtquakes?
300
Charles Richter devised the ___ scale to measure earthquake magnitude.
What is richter?
300
Name at least three things that burst from a volcano.
What is rock fragments,dust, and steam?