Plates Test
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Lithosphere | Crust and Upper Mantle
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| Divergent boundary | Move away from each other
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| Alfred Wegner | Meteorologist who proposed Continental Drift Theory
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| Cinder cone volcano | Steep volcano, explosive, small
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| Shield volcano | Gently sloping sides
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| Transform boundary | Horizontal motion-Most in oceans
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| Harry Hess | Proposed sea floor spreading theory
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| Convection currents | A current of heated magma that makes plates float
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| Volcanic island arc | Series of Volcanos
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| Sea floor spreading | Ocean crust that causes rising magma
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| Plutons | Intrusive igneous rocks associated with volcanoes
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| Tephra | Any solid material out of a volcano
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| Ductile deformation | Permanently deformed
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| P waves | Push and pull
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| S waves | Side to side
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| Reverse fault | Pushed upward by compression
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| Seismograph | Instrument that measures and records details of earthquakes
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| Seismogram | A record produced by a seismograph
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| Strike slip | Shear fault in horizontal direction
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| Normal Fault | Tension fault
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| Focus | Where rocks break place
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| Epicenter | Point on surface directly above focus
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| Richter Scale | A numerical scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake
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| Moment Magnitude | Measures the size of earthquakes in terms of energy released
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| Mountain | A large natural elevation of the earth's surface rising (a large hill)
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| Pillow Basalt | Pillow like formation of lava rocks
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| Orogeny | Earth crust us folded and deformed by compression to form a mountain range
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