Plate tectonics (unit 3 vocab)
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| Asthenosphere | show 🗑
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| show | Process where two tectonics plates collide
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| show | Theory that the oceanic crust was created at the ocean ridges
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| show | Convection currents in the mantle that are thought to be the main cause of plate movements
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| show | process connected to convection currents in the earths mantle , occurs when the weight of a elevated ridge pushes an oceanic plate towards a subsection
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| show | Tectonic process involved with convection currents, occurs when the weight of a subduction plate pulls the lithosphere into a subduction zone
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| show | Magma flowing onto the earths surface
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| show | molten rock below the earths surface
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| Tectonic plates | show 🗑
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| show | Wegeners theory that earths continent were once one big super continent called Pangea
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| show | place where two tectonic plates will move toward each other
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| Divergent boundary | show 🗑
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| show | Place where two tectonic plates end up sliding horizontally away from each other
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| show | A hot area in the earths mantle
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| show | Point on Earths surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
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| show | point of the initial fault rupture where an earthquake originates
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| Pangaea | show 🗑
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| show | Geological dangers that may cause changes to the Earth's surface
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| show | Formed by vertical and horizontal compression, it causes a vertical movement upwards along a fault plane
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| show | Caused by horizontal shear that causes horizontal movement along a fault plane
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| show | Its tension causes vertical movement downwards along a fault plane
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| show | Stress that decreases the volume of a material
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| show | Stress that pulls a material apart
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| show | Stress that causes a material to twist
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| Felsic | show 🗑
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| Mafic | show 🗑
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