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Hess discovered system of moution ranges

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mid-ocean Ridge

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The boundary where two plates collide

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Convergent plate boundary

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Subduction
When a thick and buoyant continental plate meets a thin and dense oceanic plate, the denser plate dives beneath the continent in a process

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Subduction

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Transform plate boundary

The type of boundary where plates slide horizontally past each other in opposite directions

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Transform plate boundary

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The sudden movement or vibration of the ground that occurs when rocks slip and slide along enormous cracks in the earth called faults

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Earthquake

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the crack in Earth’s crust along which rock has moved

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Fault

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a sudden release of strain energy as a rock moves along a fault

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Elastic rebound

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The point of origin for an earthquake

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Focus

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The point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus

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Epicenter

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A long narrow depression that forms in between peaks along the mid ocean ridge

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Rift valley

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The boundary between two plates that are moving apart

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Divergent plate boundary

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Who came up with the Continental drift hypothesis?

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Alfred Wegener

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What is some evidence for Wagner’s’ hypothesis?

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  1. Coast lines match up like puzzle pieces
    2.They found fossils
    3.
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What was the name of the super content?

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Pangaea

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Who came with the sea floor spreading hypothesis?

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Harry Hess

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How did Harry Hess map the bottom of the sea floor?

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sonar

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Who discovered the mid ocean floor?

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Harry Hess

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where at the bottom of the is the youngest going to be found?

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closer to the mid-ocean ridge (MOR)

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What are the types of plate boundaries?

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Divergent
Convergent
Transform

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How do convergent plate boundaries move

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they collide

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Subduction zones only occur with which of plate boundary?

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convergent plate boundaries

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What two types of crust are found in plate movement?

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Oceanic crust and continental crust

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what are the types of land forms that can be created when oceanic and continental crust converge?

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Volcano’s and deep-sea trenches

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What land forms are created when two oceanic crust converge?

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deep-sea trench, hot spots (creates islands)

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What land form is created when two Continental crust converge?

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Mountains

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How do divergent plate boundaries move?

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Dividing

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what are two examples specific examples of divergent plate boundaries?

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MOR(two oceanic crust ), east African rift(continental crust)

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How do transform plate boundaries move?

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The slide by each other

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What is a specific example of a transform plate boundary

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The San Adras fault (made up of two continental crust)

30
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How does a convention current work?

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  1. Magma heats, becomes less dense, Rises

2. Magma cools, becomes more dense, falls

31
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What types of plate boundaries have shallow earthquakes ?

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Divergent and transform

32
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Which boundary have earth quakes.

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Convergent plate boundaries

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What are the four types of stress that can be applied to rocks?

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Compression, tension, shear, torsion(twisting)

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what are the types of deformation?

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elastic and plastic

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What happens to the rock if elastic deformation occurs?

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soon as tension is released returns to the original shape

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What happens to the rock if plastic deformation occurs?

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soon as stress is released it it remains in new shape.

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What types of seismic waves are there?

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primary, secondary, surface

38
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Which type of wave moves the fastest?

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Primary wave

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How do primary wave move

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through compression

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How do secondary waves move?

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transverse

41
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What types of materiel’s can p waves move through?

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liquids and solids

42
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what type of materials can s waves move through

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solids

43
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Which waves ore the most complex and dangerous

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Surface waves

44
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What are the two scales that hel measure earth quakes

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ricard macali

45
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What dose the ricter scale measure

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amount of energy released

46
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What dose macili realese

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damage

47
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Infiltration

48
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Water table

49
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aquifer

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porosity

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Absolute Dating

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relative dating

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Unformitarianism

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Principal of superposition

55
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uncomformity

56
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Fossil

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