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Midterm #1: Vocab.
Term | Definition |
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Asthenosphere | |
Axial volcano | |
Cascadia subduction zone | |
Collision zone | |
Continental drift | |
Convergent boundary | |
Crust | |
Core | |
Divergent boundary | |
Earthquake | |
Epicenter | |
Fissure eruption | |
Foreshock | |
Gondwanaland | |
Gorda plate & ridge | |
Hot spot | |
Hypocenter (focus) | |
Hypothesis | |
Inner core | |
Intensity | |
Island arc | |
Juan de Fuca plate & ridge | |
Laurasia | |
Lava | |
Left lateral (fault and transform) | |
Lithosphere | |
Magnetic anomaly (stripe) | |
Magnetic reversal | |
Main shock | |
Mantle | |
Mendocino triple junction | |
Mesosphere | |
Normal magnetic field | |
Reversed magnetic field | |
North American plate | |
Ocean ridge or rise | |
Outer core | |
Pacific plate | |
Pangea | |
Pillow basalt | |
Plate tectonics | |
Right lateral transform | |
Rupture | |
Seafloor spreading | |
Seismicity | |
Spreading center | |
Subduction zone | |
Tectonic plate | |
Theory | |
Transform boundary | |
Trench | |
Triple junction | |
Chemical Earth | |
Mechanical Earth | |
Magnitude | |
Aftershock |