Waves
Used to give Scientists information about the structure of Earth's interior layers
What are seismic waves?
Vibrations resulting from rock at plate boundaries rubbing against one another at a fault that releases energy
What are earthquakes?
Melted rock below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed on cooling
What is magma?
The outermost region of Earth's interior
What is the crust?
The force due to the weight of the cold, dense sinking tectonic plate
What is Slab Pull?
Waves that can not go through liquid
What are S Waves?
The machine that records data about earthquakes
What is seismographs?
Melted rock coming from a volcano such rock that has cooled and hardened
What is lava?
The innermost region of Earth's interior
What is the inner core?
Plates that slide past one another laterally
What is a transform boundary?
The fastest kind of waves
What is P waves?
The point within the Earth where an earthquake begins
What is the focus?
The cracks/holes in Earth's crust that allows magma to rise through it and on to Earth's surface
What is the vent?
The part of Earth's interior that is liquid
What is the outer core?
Plates spread and move apart from one another
What is a divergent boundary?
What are all types of seismic waves
What is S Waves, P Waves, Surface Waves?
The point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus
What is the epicenter?
The location in the middle of plates with Volcanic areas that are fed by hot mantle below the Earth's crust, and create a chain of of volcanoes as tectonic plates move over them?
What are hot spots?
The location of the focus in Earth's interior and contains the Convection currents.
What is the mantle?
The Boundary where Plates are pushed together and where they meet one slides under the other
What is a convergent boundary?
Waves that spread in all directions
What are S waves?
The transfer of thermal energy from Earth’s core toward its surface that drive the plate movements
What is convection?
The kind of boundary that does not have volcanic activity
What is a transform boundary?
The location of the epicenter in Earth's interior
What is the crust?
The types of Plate Movement that can be found at convergent boundaries
What is oceanic-oceanic, continental-continental, and oceanic-continental?