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100
The tin and outermost layer on earth.
Crust
100
The strong lower part mantle between asthenosphere and the outer core
Mesosphere
100
When two plates collided together
Convergent Boundary
100
the bending of rock layers do to stress
Folding
100
A vent or fissure in the Earth's surface through which magma and gases are expelled
volcano
200
The of rock between the Earth's Crust and and core.
Mantle
200
A block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and the rigid outer most part of the mantle
Tectonic plates
200
The boundary between two tectonic that are moving away from each other
Divergent Boundary
200
a break in a body of rock along which one block slides relative to another
Fault
200
The body of molten rock that feeds a volcano
Magma Chamber
300
The central part of the Earth below the mantle
Core
300
The hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single land mass that broke and drifted to their present location.
Continental Drift
300
The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
Transform Boundary
300
the study of earthquakes
Seismology
300
a large semi circle depression that forms when the magma chamber below a volcano partially empties and causes the ground above to sink
caldera
400
the solid outer layer earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle.
Lithosphere
400
The process which new oceanic lithosphere forms maga rises toward the surface
Sea-floor spreading
400
stress that occurs when forces act to squeeze and object
Compression
400
a wave of energy that travels through the earth and away from a earthquake in all directions
seismic wave
400
a wide flat land form that results from repeated nonexplosive eruptions of lava that spread over a large area
lava plateau
500
the soft the layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates move
Asthenosphere
500
The theory that explains how large pieces of earths outer most layer called tectonic place move and change place
Plate tectonics
500
stress that occurs when forces act to stretch object
Tension
500
the point on earths surface directly above and earthquakes starting points
epicenter
500
an area of deep cracks that forms between two tectonic plates that are pulling away from each other
Rift zone