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In volcanic areas, the groundwater heated by magma is a source of
What is geothermal energy?
Groundwater heated by magma rises to surface and collects in a pool called
What is a hot spring?
Before lava reaches the surface it is called
What is magma?
The Hawaiian islands were volcanoes forming over a
What is a hot spot?
A hole left by the collapse of a volcanic mountain
What is a caldera?
Geologist can observe earth’s interior by
What is recording and studying seismic waves?
Geologist think the movement of earth’s plates is caused by
What is convection currents?
Pieces of earth’s lithosphere are in constant slow movement because of
What are plate tectonics?
These will occur where plate movement stores energy along faults
What are earthquakes?
Area of high, flat elevated land above sea level
What is a plateau?
S waves are also known as
What are secondary waves?
These earthquakes waves can travel through liquids and solids
What are P waves?
Point beneath earth’s surface where rocks break under stress and cause an earthquake
What is focus?
Seismic waves carry energy _______ of an earthquake
What is away from the focus?
Instrument that measures and records movement during an earthquake
What is a seismograph?
The change in volume or shape of earth’s crust
What is deformation?
This type of stress force produces reverse faults
What is compression?
Pushing a mass of rock in opposite, horizontal direction
What is shearing?
A fold in rock that bends upward into an arch
What is an anticline?
Seismic waves that move by compressing and expanding
What are P waves?
Layer of earth made up of rocks basalt and granite
What is the crust?
The layer of earth where earth’s interior spins inside hot, molten metal
What is the outer core?
The asthenosphere is part of this layer of earth
What is the mantle?
As depth beneath earth increases, the temperature and pressure will
What is increase?
Convection currents flow in earth’s ________
What is asthenosphere?
The longest mountain chain in the world
What is the mid- ocean ridge?
Place where two plates come together
What is a convergent boundary?
Ocean floor sinks through ocean trenches and back into the mantle
What is subduction?
When magma squeezes between horizontal layers of rock, it forms a
What is a sill?
He believed that the continents were once joined together as a single landmass
Who is Wegener?
Make your wager
The San Andreas Fault is this type of fault
What is a Strike- Slip Fault?