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Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Mountain building
Earth's layers
Plate tectonics
100
Place where gas,ash or melted rock come out of ground
What is a volcano?
100
Ground movements that occur when blocks of rock in earth move suddenly and release energy
What is an earthquake?
100
Amount of force per unit area placed on an object.
What is stress?
100
Outermost solid layer that is made up of elements
What is crust?
100
When continents were joined in a single landmass
What is Pangea
200
Volcanoes with a broad base and gently sloping sides
What is a shield volcano?
200
Place within earth along a fault at which first motion of an earthquake occurs
What is a focus?
200
Occurs when rock layers bend under stress
What is a folding?
200
Movement of matter that result from differences in density caused by difference in temperature
What is convection?
200
Laurasia and Gondwana
What were the 2 parts that Pangea broke into?
300
Opening of volcano
What is a vent
300
Break in Earth’s crust along which blocks of rocks move
What is a fault?
300
When rocks break and move past each other
What is a fault?
300
Outermost rigid layer of earth
What is the lithosphere?
300
When molten rock inside the earth rises through the cracks
What is sea floor spreading?
400
Steep Volcanoes with cinder and ash built around vent
What is a cinder cone
400
Process by which rock becomes deformed and change shape due to stress
What is deformation?
400
Strike-slip Normal Reverse
What are the 3 kinds of faults?
400
Layer of weak or soft mantle
What is Asthenosphere?
400
Plates that move around on top of asthenosphere
What is a tectonic plate?
500
Opening or depression at the top of a volcano
What is a volcanic crater?
500
Vertical movement of seafloor caused by earthquake which causes a series of extremely long waves that move across the ocean
What is a tsunami?
500
Stress that stretches or pulls rocks apart
What is tension?
500
Strong lower part of mantle
What is the Mesosphere?
500
When 2 plates move away from each other
What is a divergent boundary?