SLHS PLATE TECTONICS
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| theory proposed by Alfred Wegener that states that the continents were once joined as a super continent | show 🗑
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| show | Pangea
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| show | Seafloor Spreading
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| show | Plate Tectonics
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| show | Plate
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| show | plates
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| Theory based on evidence that plates are moving slowly and constantly. | show 🗑
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| Supercontinent | show 🗑
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| show | plate boundaries
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| force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume | show 🗑
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| show | shearing
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| stress that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks | show 🗑
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| stress force that pulls on the crust, stretching rock to become thinner | show 🗑
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| show | earthquake
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| break in the Earth's crust where slabs of crust pass by each other | show 🗑
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| Shearing creates this type of fault | show 🗑
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| show | reverse
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| Tension forces in Earth's crust produce this type of fault | show 🗑
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| Half the fault that lies above the fault | show 🗑
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| show | footwall
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| show | folds
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| large area of flat land elevated high above sea level | show 🗑
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| show | focus
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| show | epicenter
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| first waves (compressional similar to a slinky) | show 🗑
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| show | s waves
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| move slower, but produce severe ground movements (making the ground roll like a water wave) | show 🗑
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| Rates earthquakes according to intensity | show 🗑
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| show | Richter scale
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| Scale used today by geologists | show 🗑
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| the theory that continents can drift apart from one another and have done so in the past | show 🗑
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| the process by which new oceanic lithosphere is created at mid-ocean ridges as older materials are pulled away from the ridge | show 🗑
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| show | plate tectonics
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| the boundary between two colliding tectonic plates | show 🗑
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| show | subduction zone
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| show | divergent boundary
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| show | transform boundary
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| a break in the Earth's crust along which two blocks of the crust slide relative to one another | show 🗑
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| show | folding
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| the type of stress that occurs when an object is squeezed | show 🗑
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| show | tension
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| the amount of force per unit area that is put on a given material | show 🗑
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| a layer of hot rock | show 🗑
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| the part of the mantle that is made of soft rock that bends like plastic | show 🗑
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| a dense ball of solid metal | show 🗑
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| show | radiation
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| heat transfer within a fluid | show 🗑
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| show | continental drift
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| the name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago | show 🗑
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| any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock | show 🗑
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| are found in all of Earth's oceans | show 🗑
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| show | sonar
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| show | subduction
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| show | plate tectonics
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| forms at a divergent plate boundary | show 🗑
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| show | sea-floor spreading
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| produced by a collision between two pieces of continental crust at a converging boundary | show 🗑
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| when you touch a hot pot or pan and energy moves from the pot to your hand | show 🗑
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| show | transform boundary
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| show | Continental Drift
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| show | Pangea
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| show | Seafloor Spreading
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| show | Plate Tectonics
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| a large section of Earth's oceanic or continental crust and rigid upper mantle that moves around on the athenosphere | show 🗑
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| show | Asthenosphere
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| show | Lithosphere
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| current in Earth's mantle that transfers heat in Earth's interior and is the driving force for plate tectonics | show 🗑
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| show | Earthquake
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| seismic wave that moves rock particles back and forth in the same direction that the wave travels | show 🗑
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| seismic wave that moves rock particles at right angles to the direction of the wave | show 🗑
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| seismic wave that moves rock particles up and down in a backward rolling motion and side to side in a swaying motion | show 🗑
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| point on earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus | show 🗑
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| instrument used to register earthquake waves and record the time that each arrived | show 🗑
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| show | volcano
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| show | vent
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| show | crater
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| the result of an unusually hot area at the boundary between earth's mantle and core that forms volcanoes when melted rock si forced upward and breaks through the crust | show 🗑
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| broad, gently sloping volcano formed by quiet eruptions of basaltic lava | show 🗑
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| steep-sided, loosely packed volcano formed when tephra falls to the ground | show 🗑
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| show | composite volcano
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| bits of rock or solidified lava dropped from the air during an explosive volcanic eruption; ranges in size from volcanic ash to volcanic bombs and blocks | show 🗑
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