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1
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Tectonic plates collide or move together
–> <–

A

Convergent plate

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They seperate and move away of another <– –>

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Divergent plate

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Where two slide past horizontally
> /
/ <

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Transform plate

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4
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Mostly found along the plate margins

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Volcano Distribution

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5
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A geolist an navy submarine commander and part of his mission is to study the deepest part of the ocean floor

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Harry Hess

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Mountains that formed due to the movement place either apart or move each other

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Mountain Ranges

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7
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Father of plate tectonics theory / Modern version of the continental drift theory

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Alfred Wegener

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8
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Is the driving mechanism of plate movement

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Convection Current

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Solid Layer of earth

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Lithosphere

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10
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Collision between oceanic and continental crust / In Three Types of Convergent Plate Boundaries

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Oceanic Continental Converge

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11
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A ductile layer under the solid lithosphere

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Asthenosphere

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12
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Both oceanic crust have the same density

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Oceanic - Oceanic Convergence

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13
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Two continental crust move toward one another / Formation of mountains

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Continental - Continental Convergence

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14
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The plates slide past horizontally to each other without destroying the lithospheric plate

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Transform Plate Boundary

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15
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The origin where the earthquake occurs

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Hypocenter / Focus

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16
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The point directly above the focus on earth

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EpiCenter

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17
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Sweep the surface in a side to side

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Love waves (L Waves)

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18
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Occurs on the lithosphere / Either love wave or rayliegh wave

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Surface Waves

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19
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Shakes the ground in a up and down motion

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Rayliegh waves (R waves)

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20
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An instrument that detects measure seismic waves

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Seismograph

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21
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Quantative measure of an earthquake

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Magnitude

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22
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Most Common Scale on an earthquake

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Richter Scale

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23
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Massive rigid of rocks that form earth’s continents / Composed of granite

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Continental Plates

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24
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Composed of basalt
Dense: 3:0g/cm

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Oceanic Plates

25
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The process wherein magma escapes from earth interior to form cool and hard rock volcano

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Volcanoism

26
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The channel magma that travels through that reach earth’s surface

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Main vent

27
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Opening that allows molten magma to flow outside the surface

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Crater

28
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Formed through the cooling and solidification of molten rocks

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Igneous rocks

29
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Ability to flow. If the greater the answer is.The greater the resistance to flow

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Viscosity

30
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A landform with an opening at the top

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Volcano

31
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Volcanoes that arise from the excretion of magma to the mantle known as

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Hotspots

32
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Rough and jagged and dangerous due to it’s sharp edges

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AA

33
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Small fragments of rocks and minerals and glasses

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Volcano Ashes

34
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Process of mountain building

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Orogeny

35
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Refers to a large surface feature that rises above it’s relative

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Mountain

36
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Occurs when two oceanic plates converge and as the leading type

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Island arc

37
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Is caused by the compression on the crust above

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Continental Volcanic Arc

38
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Occurs along continental plate boundaries

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Andean Type

39
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Lowest point of the fold

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Syncline

39
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The peak of any folded rock layer

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AntiCline

40
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Sharp peaked anticline fold

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Tightfold

41
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Bending or warping of folding rock layers

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Overfold

42
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As a result of too much bending that no vertical regions can be seen

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Recombent fold

43
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A fold that has overtuned causing rock layers to be fractured

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Nappe

44
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Is a fracture between two blocks of rock

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Fault

45
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A slope or inclination of any geolical surface the greater the slope the greater dip angle strike / Any horizontal line that is drawn

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DIP

46
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Any rocks that falls above the fault line footwall / Any rocks that falls under the fault line

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Hanging Wall

47
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These faults can be found along transformed plate boundaries

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Strike - Slip Fault

48
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A storage location of molten rock below the ground

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Magma Chamber

49
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A Greek word which means ‘‘All Earth’’

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Pangea

50
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The Three Evidence Of Alfred Wegener

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Geolical Fit
Glacier
Coal Deposit

51
Q

Thinnest and outermost layer of the earth

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Crust

52
Q

The primary and secondary waves travel within the interior of earth, and are responsible for the detection on the epicenter of an earthquake

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Seismic Waves

53
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Also known as plate boundaries

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Plate Margins

54
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Internal part of seismograph and works as a pendelum that swings back and forth which is attached to a barrel that rotates and makes print of the ground shaking

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Seismometer

55
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When lava flows on the surface of earth, It is called

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Extrusive volcanism

56
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Entrapped lava flow that does not reach the surface is called

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Intrusive volcanism

57
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Lava flow exhibits smooth-surfaced characteristics

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