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Chapter 7
Flash cards
Question | Answer |
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Vent | An opening |
Lava | The molten fluid rock |
Crater | A cup shaped depression or crater |
Hot spot | An unfourtanatte place in the earth |
Cinder come volcano | A small con animal opening |
Shield volcano | A built if explosion |
Composite song | Made up of separate parts |
Geothermal | Heat from the earth |
Fault | A break in the earths crus |
Focus | The main spot in a fault |
Seismic | The force of an earthquake |
Epicenter | The main center of an earthquake |
Aftershcok | The shock after an earthquake |
Seismograph | The machine that measures the seismic force |
Magnitude | The force of something |
Crust | The top most layer of the earth |
Original horizontals tally | The horizontally movement of plates |
Continental drift | The theory that the continents were once a Pangea |
Sea floor speeding | A theory that the sea floor makes the continents moved |
Magma | The lava under the earth |
Plate tectonics | The different plate |
Mantle | The second innermost layer of the earth |
Subduction | The movement of the earth with the force of sea floor spreading |