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Conservative plate boundary
Convection currents
Convergent plate boundary
Divergent plate boundary
Earthquake
Epicentre
Focus
Fold mountains
Hot spot
Magma
Mantle
Mercalli scale
Pyroclastic flow
Richter scale
Subduction
Volcano
Which key terms match the following definitions?
A Where two tectonic plates slide
past each other
B
C
D
E
F
Circulating movements of magma in
the mantle caused by heat from the
core
The point on the surface directly G An scale indicating the strength of
above the focus of an
an earthquake, as measured by a
earthquake
seismograph
Where two tectonic plates move H The process by which one tectonic
away from each other
plate is dragged down beneath
another by convection currents
A scale from I to XII, used to
indicate the impact and effects
of an earthquake
A place where very hot magma
rises from within the mantle to
the crust, but not necessarily at
a plate boundary