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Overview of Chapters 7&8 of Glencoe Level Blue

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Large vibrations that move through rock or other Earth materials   Earthquakes  
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when rocks strain and then break, the broken pieces snap back   elastic rebound  
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the surface of a break in a rock   fault  
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when strained rock's potential energy is released, it moves outward from the fault in waves   seismic waves  
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the point inside Earth where movement along a fault first occurs and energy is released   focus  
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the point on Earth's surface located directly above the focus   Epicenter  
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instrument that records an earthquakes seismic waves.   seismograph  
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when an earthquake occurs on the ocean floor, the sudden movement pushes against the wader and creates powerful waves that can travel thousands of kilometers   tsunamis  
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cone-shaped hills or mountains formed by denser surrounding rock   volcanoes  
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bits of rock or solidified lava dropped from the air after an explosive eruption   tephra  
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basaltic lava which flows easily   shield volcanoes  
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high gas content in the magma   cinder cone volcanoes  
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volcanoes made of alternating layers of lava and tephra   composite volcanoes  
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large rising bodies of magma force their way through earth's crust, not at plate boundaries   hot spots  
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where plates converge and denser plates subduct, or are forced underneath less dense plates   convergent plate boundaries  
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