Faults and Folds
The hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
What is a reverse fault?
Name all of the compositional layers starting at the top and going towards the center in order.
What are lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, outer core, inner core?
Volcanoes mainly form there.
What is tectonic plate boundaries?
The aftermath of an earthquake.
What is intensity?
2 continental crusts collide and form these.
What are mountains?
The normal fault forms this boundary.
What is a divergent boundary?
Name all of the physical layers starting from the top and going to the center in order.
What are crust, mantle, and core?
Volcanic mudflows made mixed with pyroclastic material.
What are lahars?
An earthquake causes this when in the water.
What is a tsunami?
When an oceanic plate and a continental plate converge this happens.
What is subduction?
This fault is the boundary of the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
The Earth's core is made up of this.
What is iron?
Thick, brittle, crusty lava.
What is aa lava?
Name 2 things that would be found in a earthquake kit.
What are food and water?
The tectonic plates float on this.
What is the asthenosphere?
A fold in which the youngest rock layers are in the center of the fold.
What is syncline?
The crusts' of Earth are made up of this.
What are aluminum, oxygen, and silicon?
Moana Loa is this type of volcano.
What is shield volcano?
This major earthquake happened in 1989 and had a magnitude of 6.9.
What is the Loma Preita earthquake?
Scientist that invented the theory of plate tectonics.
Who was Alfred Wegener?
Tension in the Earth's crust cause the crust to break into a large number of normal faults.
What are fault-block mountains?
The mantle is made up of this.
What are iron and magnesium?
Volcanic ash is used to make 2 products.
What are soap and cat litter?
Expresses the magnitude of an earthquake.
What is the Richter scale?
Name all of the driving forces of plate tectonics.
What is ridge push, slab pull, and convection?