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Types of Plate Margins
Forces behind Plate movment
How Igneous Rocks are Form and Classifyed
Types of Volcanoes
Earthquakes
100
Where two tectonic plates collide into each other.
What is a convergent boundary?
100
The transfer of thermal energy by movement of heated material from one place to anouther,
What is a convection current?
100
Molten rock stored beneath the earth's crust.
What is magma?
100
The six types of volcanoes
What are flood or plateau basalt, Shield volcano, Composite or stratovolcano, volcanic dome, and caldera.
100
The deformation of materials in response to stress is this.
What is strain?
200
This boundary is also known as a destructive plate boundary.
What is a convergent boundary?
200
Process that occurs when the weight of an elevated ridge pushes an oceanic plate toward a subduction zone.
What is ridge push?
200
How large or small the crystals formed in the rock are.
What is crystal size?
200
Blocks and bombs is the largest classification of this.
What is pyroclastics or tephra.
200
The three types of seismic waves.
What is primary, secondary, and surface waves?
300
This boundary has volcanic island arcs nearby.
What is a divergent boundary?
300
Process that occurs when the weight of the subducting plate pulls the trailing lithosphere into a subduction zone.
What is slab pull?
300
Name three of the various types of igneous rocks.
What is glassy, fine, coarse, vesicular, or porphyrititc
300
Mount St. Helens is this type of volcano.
What is a composite volcano?
300
The slowest most destructive kind of wave.
What is surface waves?
400
Rift valleys can occur at this boundary.
What is a divergent boundary?
400
Unusually hot area in the Earth's mantle Where high-temperature plumes of mantle material rise toward the surface.
What is a mantle plume?
400
Properties used to identify igneous rocks.
What are mineral composition, texture, and color
400
This type of volcano is the least violent.
What is flood or plateau basalt?
400
This measures the magnitude of an earthquake.
What does the Richter scale measure?
500
The San Andreas Fault is this type of boundary.
What is a transform boundary
500
Chains of volcanoes that form of stationary mantle plumes provide information such as the rate and direction of plate motion.
How do mantle plumes provide information about plate motion?
500
The four different mineral compositions of igneous rock.
What is felsic, intermediate, mafic, and ultramafic?
500
Shield volcanoes have this type of this type of eruptions.
What is a basaltic eruption?
500
___ is where the earthquake begins and ___ is the point on the surface directly above.
What is focus and epicenter.