Earthquakes
What is the exact point underground where an earthquake happens?
What is focus or hypocenter?
The flow bubbling up from the Earth?
What is Magma?
Does conservative/transform boundaries cause volcanoes?
No
When two or more plates meet and tension builds up and is released.
How do earthquakes happen?
This produces folded mountains.
What are collision or transform boundaries?
What is the process of two continental plates pushing together and one sliding under the other?
What is subduction?
The large area where volcanoes circle the continents.
What is the Ring of Fire?
What happens when a volcano erupts?
What is :
Earthquakes
Huge lava flow from magma
Ash cloud
How many major tectonic plates are there
What is 7?
Where is Crater Lake?
What is Oregon?
The crack in the earth's surface where an earthquakes shake?
What is a fault?
What is the largest tsunami that has been recorded?
Lituya Bay Alaska 1958
A whole in the Earth, caused by a meteor?
What is an impact crater?
What two main plates cause subduction?
What are the ocean and continental plates?
The mountain range in the the Eastern United States that are low and gently rounded due to erosion and weathering?
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
When the oceanic plate moves under the continental plate.
What is subduction?
What is a hot spot?
Where hot plumes rise upward forming volcanoes.
How do straovocanoes form?
This volcano is formed by the buildup of lava flows and explosively vented material dropping down onto the surface..
What is a straovocano?
When two tectonic plates split apart.
What is divergent boundary?
When dirt and rocks cascade down a hill.
What is a landslide?
Where the center of a quake is on the crust of the earth.
What is the epicenter?
The deepest lake created by a volcano in America.
What is Crater Lake?
A volcano with a flat top.
What is a GUYOT?
Where the most magma usually is.
Where do constructive/divergent boundaries mostly appear?
These mountains are younger, peaked mountains, mostly in Colorado?
What are the Rocky Mountains?