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Volcanoes and Earthquakes
The Dynamic Earth
100
Places where subsurfaces molten rock breaks through the earths surface to form changes in th landscape.
What is Volcano
100
Spreading zone of crustal formation
What is Divergent plate boundary
100
Subsurface molten rock from a typical volcano is called
What is Magma
100
The earth formed how long ago
What is 4.5 billion years
200
When rock suddenly breaks along the earths flat surface
What is Earthquake
200
A place where two plates come together
What is Convergent plate boundary
200
Tidal waves that result from an earthquake are
What is a Tsunamis
200
The western part of america is mostly made up of
What is Terranes
300
The flat surface that breaks due to the rocks.
What is Fault
300
The regions of the earth's deep interior where plates converge and old crust returns to the mantle
What is Subduction zone
300
Earthqueakes are rated on what kind of a scale
What is Richter scale
300
The dramatic stream of volcanoes that boarders the pacific ocean
What is The ring of fire
400
A theory that explains how a few thin rigid plates of crustal and upper mantal materials are moved across the Earths surface by mantle conviction.
What is Plate tectonics
400
When one plate scrapes past anothe with no new plate material being reproduced.
What is Transform plate boundary
400
What is Wegeners theory why the americas fit to the coast line
What is continental drift
400
The study and measurement of sound vibrations within earth
What is Seismology
500
Moves continents and the plates.
What is Mantle Conviction
500
A dramatic type of volcanism indirectly associated with plate tectonics
What is Hot Spots
500
What process widens the sea floor
What is Spreading
500
What are two types of seismic waves
What is Compressional and tranverse