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Chapter 7
Flash cards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |