Plate Tectonics and Volcano Flashcards

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1
Q

A mountain or hill, typically
conical, having a crater or vent
through which lava, rock
fragments, hot vapor, and gas are
being or have been erupted from
the earth’s crust.

A

Volcano

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2
Q

A long, narrow, deep depression
in the ocean floor, typically one
running parallel to a plate
boundary and marking a
subduction zone.

A

Trench

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3
Q

Plate under landmasses

A

Continental Plates

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4
Q

Plate under the ocean

A

Oceanic Plates

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5
Q

A path along the Pacific Ocean
characterized by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes

A

Ring of Fire

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6
Q

How are volcanoes distributed?

A

Most are concentrated on the edges of continents

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7
Q

What happens to
the oceanic crust as it collides with the continental crust?

A

The oceanic plate is subducted under the continental plate due to the high density of the oceanic plate.

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8
Q

What do you think may happen to
the leading edge of the oceanic crust as it
continues to move downward?

A

it will undergo subduction process.

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9
Q

What is formed on top of continental crust?

A

Volcanoes

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10
Q

How is a volcano formed?

A

One plate subducts beneath the other, resulting in a variety of earthquakes and a line of volcanoes on the overriding plate.

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11
Q

What necessary precautions you
should do during a volcanic eruption?

A
  • Limit your time outdoors and use a cloth mask.
  • Avoid areas downwind and river valleys.
  • Take temporary shelter from volcanic ash where you are.
  • Cover ventilation openings, seal doors and windows.
  • Avoid driving in heavy ash.
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12
Q

What are produced from the movement of tectonic plates?

A

Volcanoes and earthquakes

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13
Q

It is composed of many individual huge pieces of solid rocks called plates

A

Lithosphere

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14
Q

Individual huge pieces of solid rocks

A

Plates

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15
Q

What is the Germanized form of “Pangaea”?

A

Pangäa

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16
Q

Developed from the 1950s through the 1970s

A

Plate tectonic theory

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17
Q

Combines the
continental drift theory

A

Plate tectonics

18
Q

Plates under landmasses

A

Continental Plates

19
Q

Plates under the ocean

A

Oceanic plates

20
Q

Thicker and less

A

Continental plates

21
Q

Thinner but denser

A

Oceanic plates

22
Q

It had its beginnings in 1915

A

Plate Tectonic Theory

23
Q

Who proposed the continental drift theory

A

Alfred Wegener

23
Q

The record of the strength and direction of Earth’s magnetic field

A

Paleomagnetism

24
Q

There are about __ volcanoes in the country

A

53

25
Q

What is a hotspot?

A

source of a molten rock in the mantle

26
Q

Occurs when two plates move away from each other and create a gap or a
rift between them.

A

Divergent Boundary

27
Q

Occurs where two plates slide each other, commonly forming either a
subduction zone or an orogenic belt.

A

Convergent Boundary

28
Q

Occurs when the plates slide against each other in opposite directions, producing
earthquakes.

A

Transform Boundary

29
Q

a region of deformed rocks.

A

orogenic belt

30
Q

is the convergent
movement of tectonic plates
whereby a denser plate is
pushed beneath a lighter one.

A

Subduction

31
Q

On the edges of the Pacific Plate lie a string of ___ volcanoes?

A

452

32
Q

Runs
along the coast of South America, the coast of

A

North America, the Bering Strait, Indonesia, New Zealand, Japan, and Philippines

33
Q

The oceanic plate subducts underneath the
continental plate, pushing the continental plate upward and forming __?

A

volcanoes

34
Q

The denser oceanic plate subducts under the continental plate and
sinks into the ___, the temperature___, causing the rocks
to melt and form ____.

A

mantle, increases, magma

35
Q

The Philippines belongs to the ____, which where multiple tectonic plates meet.

A

Ring of Fire

36
Q

He published his theory in History
of Ocean Basins (1962), and it
came to be called

A

Harry Hess, seafloor spreading

37
Q

Which crust is denser?

A

Oceanic Crust

38
Q

If there are two oceanic plates which one will subduct?

A

The older one

39
Q

If two oceanic plates have the same density, will both subduct?

A

Yes