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Plate Boundaries
Earth's Layers
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Mountain Building
100
What are the 3 types of boundaries?
What is convergent, transform, divergent ?
100
Thinnest layer; plants and animals.
What is the crust?
100
The 3 types of volcanoes?
What is shield volcanoe, Cinder cone, & Composite?
100
Modified mercalli scale and richter scale
What are the scales for measuring earthquakes ?
100
Force that applies the pressure on rocks.
What is stress?
200
Plates moving away from each other, sea floor spreadin
What is divergent boundary?
200
The largest layer; solid with liquid properties.
What is the mantle?
200
Large fragments blown from the cone of felsic volcanoes
What is pyroclastic?
200
Shaking of the crust release of energy
What is an earthquakes?
200
Two forces involved in changing in earth.
What is Isostasy?
300
Volcanoes are formed when plates move over a weak spot.
What is hot spot?
300
Moves like a liquid and is formed as a solid.
What is plasticity?
300
Low silica, low in water vapor and CO2 (Dark)
What is Mafic (Basaltic) ?
300
Area where slippage first occurs.
What is focus?
300
The two types of folding bends.
What is syncline and anticline?
400
➡️ ⬅️ Ocean to ocean ⬅️ ➡️ Ocean to continent ➡️ ⬅️ Continent to continent
What is convergent boundary?
400
The dentist layer, has an inner and outer layer.
What is the core?
400
Largest area of igneous Rock in the world, and largest volcanic features.
What is deccans trap?
400
Released energy in the form of wave motions in all directions from the focus.
What are seismic waves?
400
4 types of faulting
What are normal, reverse, strike slip, thrust?
500
Transform boundary occurs in what city?
What is san Andrés, CA?
500
The inner core Is made out of ______
What is iron and nickel?
500
Formed by altering explosive and quiet eruptions develop high volcanic mountains
What is composite volcanoes?
500
Fastest travel wave, first recorded, travel through liquids and solids
What is primary wave?
500
⬆️⬇️ Movement of crust to reach Isostasy. Create pressure causing rocks in that particular area to bend & deform. Common cause of EQ.
What is isostatic adjustment?