Earth Science
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| Geology | show 🗑
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| show | earth's outer layer of rock
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| granite | show 🗑
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| show | portion of crust under the oceans
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| show | deposits sand, rock fragments, sometimes organic matter,usually laid water deposited wind glaciers
down by water sometimes deposited4
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| oxygen | show 🗑
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| show | study of earthquake waves
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| Mohorovicic discontinuity or Moho | show 🗑
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| upper mantle | show 🗑
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| Transition zone | show 🗑
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| plastic rock | show 🗑
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| Gutenberg Discontinuity | show 🗑
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| show | the central part of the earth
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| what does the core consist of? | show 🗑
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| show | liquid as a result of the intense heat at that depth;probably consists of molten iron and nickel
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| show | solid nickel or iron kept in solid state by pressure
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| show | plate tectonics theory, several rock masses of rock float like rafts plastic rock of upper mantle
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| show | theory earth's crust consists huge plates slowly move result convection currents plastic rock upper mantle
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| Pangaea | show 🗑
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| show | fracture in rock that occurs when rock breaks under the strain of forces upon it
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| show | type of fault that occurs when rocks along one side of fault sink vertically
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| show | type of fault that occurs when the rocks along one side of a fault move horizontally along fault
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| show | type of fault that occurs when the rocks on one side of a fault are thrust on top rocks on the other side
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| fold | show 🗑
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| show | trough-like fold that occurs when rocks bend downward
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| anticline | show 🗑
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| show | cone-shaped mountain molten rock erupts from crust
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| domed mountains | show 🗑
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| folded mountains | show 🗑
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| fault-block mountains | show 🗑
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| show | trembling/shaking earth's crust
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| show | weak earthquake
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| tectonic earthquakes | show 🗑
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| aftershocks | show 🗑
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| show | study of earthquakes
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| show | result movement rock masses along fault
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| elastic rebound theory | show 🗑
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| San Andreas Fault | show 🗑
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| show | point which earthquake begins
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| epicenter | show 🗑
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| show | waves consist rhythmic push-pull motion direction travel;goes through solids and liquids
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| Secondary waves or S waves | show 🗑
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| Surface waves | show 🗑
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| seismograph | show 🗑
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| seismogram | show 🗑
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| show | 85% earthquakes depths 8-65 km(5-40 mi) below surface
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| intermediate focus earthquakes | show 🗑
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| show | 3% earthquakes depths more 300 km (200 mi)
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| show | 700 km(435 mi)
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| show | belt bordering the Pacific Ocean along 80% of world's earthquakes occur
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| Richter Scale | show 🗑
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| Volcano | show 🗑
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| show | channel gases,ash,and rock are ejected from volcano
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| show | molten rock beneath earth's surface
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| show | conical shaped mountain which is formed from the ejected materials
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| crater | show 🗑
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| volcanology | show 🗑
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| volcanologists | show 🗑
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| show | volcano consists of erupted volcanic ash and cinders(rock fragments)
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| shield volcanoes | show 🗑
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| composite volcano | show 🗑
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| show | volcano has erupted within past 50 years
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| dormant volcano | show 🗑
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| extinct volcano | show 🗑
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| Ring of Fire | show 🗑
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| viscosity | show 🗑
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| ejecta | show 🗑
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| lava | show 🗑
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| show | pahoehoe and a a
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| show | lava that hardens to form a smooth or ropy surface
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| show | lava that hardens into rough,jagged rocks with a crumbly texture
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| show | particles or blocks of solid volcanic ejecta
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| volcanic ash | show 🗑
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| show | ejecta that are larger than volcanic dust particles but less than 32 mm
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| show | solid,irregularly shaped lumps of hardened lava,often large and boulder like in appearance
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| volcanic BOMBS | show 🗑
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| show | dangerous part of volcano consisting incandescent ash and superheated gases accompanies eruptions
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| show | superheated,incandescent cloud of gas and volcanic ash that travels down volcanic slope as avalanche
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| show | bowel-shaped crater least two miles across,formed underground magma chamber collapses
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| lava tunnels | show 🗑
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| show | mass of igneous rock beneath earth's surface
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| dike | show 🗑
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| sill | show 🗑
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| laccolith | show 🗑
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| batholiths | show 🗑
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| Where is the earth's crust the thickest? | show 🗑
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| show | beneath the oceans
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| What is the largest known volcanic mountain on earth? | show 🗑
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| show | the Black Hills
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| show | Appalachians and Rocky
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| what is a tectonic earthquake? | show 🗑
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| What is the primary cause of tectonic earthquakes? | show 🗑
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| show | rocks on either side of the fault spring back to a position of little or no strain at the movement of a earthquake producing vibrations in the earth's crust
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| fault scarp | show 🗑
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| slickenslides | show 🗑
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| show | San Andreas fault
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| show | shallow-focus earthquakes
intermediate-focus earthquakes
deep-focus earthquakes
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| show | at least three
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| show | Circum-pacific belt
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| show | Mediterranean-Trans-Asiatic belt
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| What scale of earthquake strength rates earthquakes by the damage they produce? | show 🗑
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| show | opening in the earth's surface through which hot gases,ash,and molten rock ejected earth's interior
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| show | composite volcano
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| show | shield volcano
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| show | cinder-cone volcano
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| What 2 factors determine violence of volcano's eruption? | show 🗑
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| show | any substance emitted by an active volcano
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| show | Great Basin and Range Province; Sierra Nevada
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| What is nuee ardente | show 🗑
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| what is huge bowl-shape crater the ground thought formed by the collapse underground magma chamber? | show 🗑
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| what is the general term for masses igneous rock form when magma hardens cracks and fissures beneath surface? | show 🗑
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| show | sill
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| show | dike
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| what are two types of domelike igneous intrusions? | show 🗑
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| show | silicon
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| show | aluminum
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| show | at the lower boundary of the crust
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| What is an earthquake? | show 🗑
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| show | the sudden movement of rock masses along a fault
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| what are pyroclasts | show 🗑
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| show | nuee ardente
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| show | caldera
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| what is an igneous intrusion | show 🗑
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