Vocabulary
A major belt of volcanoes that rims the Pacific Ocean
What is the Ring of Fire?
Name of plate boundary the "pulls apart"
What is divergent?
Name of Stress in a convergent boundary
What is compression?
Earthquakes are usually located in relation to these
What is a plate boundary
The Himalayan mountains (Mt Everest)are the result of a ___________________________ boundary.
What is convergent boundary (C-C)
A number of rigid, but moving, pieces of Earth's surface that contain the lithosphere
What is tectonic plates.
2 geographical features that occur at divergent O-O boundaries
What are mid-ocean ridge & mountains?
Type of convergent boundary where island arcs are made
What is a convergent Ocean-Ocean?
The mid-ocean ridge is an example of a ____________________ boundary and ___________________ occurs here where new ocean floor is formed.
What is divergent boundary; sea-floor spreading
Determines which plate is pushed back down into the mantle.
What is more dense?
Mountains, trenches, island arcs, rift valleys, mid-ocean ridges
What are geographical features?
Name of stress in a divergent boundary?
What is tension?
Type of convergent boundary makes mountains that continue to grow each year
What is convergent continental-continentral?
What plate is the United States on?
What is the North American plate?
_________________ are a result from the build up of stress at a plate boundary.
What is earthquakes
What are the tectonic activities within the earth's crust that releases energy?
What are earthquakes & volcanoes
Real world example of a divergent boundary
What is Atlantic Mid-Ocean Ridge or Iceland or East African Rift Zone??
Type of convergent plate boundary that can cause the tectonic activity of a tsunami
What is convergent Ocean- Ocean
Stress of transform plate boundary
What is shearing?
The 3 stresses in plate boundaries
What are compression, tension, and shearing?
Geographical feature (besides mts) that occur at a divergent C-C boundary
What is a rift valley?
Real world example of a Convergent O-C?
What is Mt. St Helens(Cascade) or Andes Mts?
Process that occurs when 2 plates collide and their densities are different?
What is subduction?
Location of an Island in an island arc that has active volcanoes not along a plate boundary
What is on top of the hot spot?