Earthquakes
The vibration of Earth produce by a release of energy
What is an earthquake
Plate boundary that pushes away
Divergent plate boundary
The most dangerous volcano
What is a composite volcano
Three types of folds are monocline, anticline and
What is syncline
Remains or traces of prehistoric life.
What is a fossil
The point where an earthquake begins
What is the focus
Plate boundary that pushes together
What is a convergent plate boundary
Materials like ash and rock that is ejected from a volcano
What is pyroclastic materials
What is a folded mountain
Fly in amber is an example of what kind of fossil
What is an unaltered fossil
Instrument that records earthquakes
What is a seismograph
Plate boundary where plates slide against each other
What is a transform plate boundary
Substance resistance to flow
what is viscosity
Type of mountains formed at ocean to ocean convergence
What is a volcanic mountain
Two conditions that favor preservation
What is hard parts and rapid burial
What is a P wave
San Andres is an example of this type of fault
A volcano island is formed at what boundary
What is a ocean to ocean plate boundary
What crust floats so it will not subduct
What is Continental crust
States that an under deformed sequence of sedimentary rocks each bed is older than the one above it and younger than the one below it
What is law of superpostion
Is triggered by an earthquake that occurs when a slab of the ocean floor is displaced.
What is a Tsunami
Cause for plates moving
What is convection flow
What mountain range is an example of divergent continental boundary
Plate boundary where most mountain building occurs
What is a convergent plate boundary
Geologists have divided the Earth’s
4.6 billion year history into units to represent
specific amounts of time is called
The Geologic Time Scale