Test 4 Flashcards
Most of the occurrence of earthquakes and formation of the volcanoes and mountains are found ____________.
along the plate boundaries
Identify the plate boundary between Nazca and South American plates.
convergent
The difference in P- and S- waves time arrival in Whole Cake Island is ______________________.
180 s
Identify the plate boundary between Antarctic and Pacific plates.
divergent
What made seismologists conclude that the outer core is liquid?
S-waves cannot travel through it
Which type of stress is associated with the converging plate boundary?
compression
The Philippine archipelago was formed due to the collision of the Philippine Sea Plate and
Indo-Australian Plate to plate.
Eurasian
Continental crusts are mostly composed of what type of rocks?
granite
What do you call the stress on rocks directed outward resulted in the creation of new crust at the center?
tension
What type of boundary does the picture illustrate?
Two plates push each others
convergent
Identify the plate boundary between Nazca and Antarctic plates.
transform fault
Which type of stress produces landforms like mountain ranges and volcanoes?
compression
San Andreas in California is an example of plate boundary.
transform fault
Which station is closest or nearest to the epicenter?
Gold City
According to the Plate Tectonic Theory, ___________________________________________.
the Earth’s crust is constantly moving due to the convection current underneath