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The vibration of earth produced by the rapid release of energy.
What is an earthquake?
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The mountian that has a magma chamber inside.
What is a volcanoe?
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The theory that proposes that earths outer shell consist of plates that interact with one another.
What is the theory of Plate Tectonics?
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The thickest layer below the Earths surface.
What is the mantal?
100
The underwater mountain range.
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
200
An earthquake recording instrument.
What is a Seimometer?
200
A plate slides over this and can creat a volcanoe.
What is a hot spot?
200
The type of plate boundary where tow plates collide, forming mountains and subduction zones.
What is a convergant plate boundary?
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The layer that involves the crust and the very upper part of the mantal.
What is the Lithosphere?
200
The type of convergent plate boundary that forms mountains on the ocean floor.
What is an Oceanic-Oceanic plat boundary?
300
The study of earthquake waves.
What is Seismology?
300
The surface opening of a volcanoe.
What is a vent?
300
The type of plate boudary when tow plates pull apart from one another.
What is a divergent plate boudary?
300
The very center of the earth, may be solid iron.
What is the inner core?
300
Type of convergent plat boundary when two continents collide, can form mountain ranges.
What is a Continental-Continental plate boundary?
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The number of Seimometers it takes to determine the epicenter of the earthquake.
Three
400
Large collapse depressions having a more or less circular form.
What is a calderas?
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A type of plate boudary that there is no crust created or disroyed.
What is a transform plate boudary?
400
The top part of the mantle, right beneath the lithosphere.
What is the Asthenosphere?
400
Allows the movement of the Lithosphere.
What is the Asthenosphere?
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The scale that measures the intensity of an eathquake.
What is the Mercalli scale?
500
Earth's most picturesque yet potentially dangerus volcanoes.
What is a composite cone / stratovolcanoe?
500
The type of convergent plate boudary when pockets of magma develope and rise?
What is Oceanic-Continental plate boundary?
500
The layer that is above the inner core.
What is the Outer Core?
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Type of plate boundary that causes seafloor spreading.
What is a divergent plate boundary?