Inside the Earth
What causes the movement of Tectonic Plates?
Convection currents in the Mantle
Boundary when two plates slide by each other
transform
What is the core mostly made out of? (two elements)
Iron and Nickle
What do you call cracks that are made in the plates from all of the pushing and shoving?
Faults
The supervolcano in Wyoming
This forms when two converging continental plates meet
mountains
panagea
Primary
large volcanoes, big base, non-explosive
Shield
What is a boundary found on the mid-atlantic ridge
divergent
What is last earthquake wave to arrive?
The L or surface wave
process used to determine the epicenter of an earthquake
triangulation
Type of volcano in middle of plate, i.e. Hawaii
Hotspot
The magnetic field is created by this layer
outercore
Type of boundaries around the ring of fire
subduction (converging)
Magma with 70% silica content
rhyolitic
A richter 7 is _____times greater than a richter 6 (in terms of energy released)
32
basaltic magma has this amount of silica content
50%
This is the only true liquid layer of the earth
outer core
volcanoes typically form from this type of plate boundary interaction
subduction (ocean - continental convergent)
olympus mons
Earthquakes in the ocean can cause tsunamis. You need this to calculate the wave speed
a fast flowing mudflow created from a volcano
lahar