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Structure of the Earth Vocab “asthenos” “lithos” asthenosphere basalt brittle brittle upper mantle/BUM continental crust core - inner and outer crust density ductile elastic felsic gabbro granite lithosphere mafic mantle Mohorovičić discontinuity/Moho oceanic crust plastic seismic anomaly or discontinuity shadow zone silica / SiO2 viscosity Bathymetry (Ocean Floor) Vocab “iso” “bathy” abyssal plain atoll bathymetry continental rise continental shelf continental slope contour lines echo location fracture zone guyot hand sounding/sounding line hypsographic curve isobaths mid-ocean ridge/MOR RADAR seamount shelf break side-scan SONAR SONAR trench/deep sea trench turbidity current turbidite volcanic island volcanic island arc Continental Drift Vocab catastrophism Cynognathus Glossopteris Glossopteris flora Gondwanaland Laurasia Lystrosaurus Mesosaurus paleoclimatology paleontology Pangaea supercontinent Tethys Sea Theory of Continental Drift uniformitarianism Major Tectonic Plates African Plate Antarctic Plate Eurasian Plate Indian Plate Australian Plate (Indo-Australian Plate) North American Plate Pacific Plate South American Plate Minor Tectonic Plates Arabian Plate Caribbean Plate Cocos Plate Juan de Fuca Plate (Mrs. Flynt’s favorite) Nazca Plate Philippine Plate Scotia Plate Farallon Plate (extinct) 1|Page Plate Tectonics Vocab “tecto” convergent boundary deep-sea trench geothermal vent / black smoker divergence divergent boundary "expanding Earth" hypothesis Hawaiian hot spot Hawaiian Ridge-Emperor Seamount Chain hot spots magnetic anomaly magnetic striping magnetite magnetometer magnetosphere mantle plumes mid-ocean ridge/MOR normal polarity oceanic-continental convergence oceanic-oceanic convergence orogeny paleomagnetism plate reversed polarity rift valley sea-floor recycling seafloor spreading subduction subduction zone theory theory of plate tectonics triple junction volcanic island arc Wadati-Benioff Zone People and Things Abraham Ortelius Alexander Du Toit Alfred Lothar Wegener Allan Cox, Brent Dalrymple, and Richard Doell Alvin Andrija Mohorovičić Atlantis Bernard Brunhes and Motonari Matuyama Drummond Matthews, Frederick Vine, and Lawrence Morley Glomar Challenger Harry H. Hess and Robert S. Dietz Hugo Benioff and Kiyoo Wadati James Hutton J. Tuzo Wilson Earthquakes/Seismic Waves Vocab “trans” attenuation compression crest earthquake electromagnetic (light) waves epicenter fault focus longitudinal/compression wave magnitude mechanical wave medium ocean wave primary wave/p-wave propagation rarefaction refraction rest position secondary wave/s-wave seismic gap seismic waves seismograph seismology sound wave surface wave transverse wave trough tsunami Wadati-Benioff Zone wavelength 2|Page Tectonic Forces Vocab anticline basin brittle craton compression deformation ductile elastic fault-block mountains folded mountains footwall hanging wall normal fault monocline plain plastic plateau reverse fault shearing strain stress strike-slip fault subsidence syncline tension thrust fault uplift Buoyancy/Archimedes Principle Vocab “libra” Archimedes’ Principle buoyancy buoyant force convection density displacement equilibrium graduated cylinder isostasy isostatic rebound mass meniscus slab pull triple beam balance volume 3|Page
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