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©Norman Herr, 2003
• ANSWER:
The 3 types of plate boundaries.
• QUESTION:
What are convergent, divergent,
transform plate boundaries?
• ANSWER:
Name 2 features that result from
subduction boundaries.
• QUESTION:
What is island arcs, deep-ocean
trenches, and coastal mountains.
• ANSWER:
The 3 types of convergent plate
boundaries.
• QUESTION:
What are continental-continental
collision, oceanic-oceanic
subduction, and oceanic-continental
subduction?
• ANSWER:
3 pieces of evidence for the theory of
continental drift.
• QUESTION:
What is climate, fossils, and geology?
• ANSWER:
Name the Earth’s 6 layers in
alphabetical order.
• QUESTION:
What is asthenosphere, crust, inner
core, lithosphere, mantle, and outer
core?
• ANSWER:
The 3 types of seismic waves in order
of decreasing speed.
• QUESTION:
What is primary, secondary, and
surface?
• ANSWER:
Name 2 structural features that can
be used to make a building more
earthquake-safe.
• QUESTION:
What are cross braces, moat, base
isolator, shear walls, and shear core?
• ANSWER:
The instrument that constantly
records ground movements and the
number of them required to locate
the epicenter of an earthquake.
• QUESTION:
What is a seismograph and 3?
• ANSWER:
The 3 types of faults and the plate
boundary associated with each.
• QUESTION:
What is normal (divergent), reverse
(convergent), and strike-slip
(transform)?
• ANSWER:
This is why the East Coast has a much
lower earthquake risk than the West
Coast.
• QUESTION:
What is the West Coast is located along
a convergent plate boundary?
• ANSWER:
The 2 types of mountains and the
plate boundary associated with each.
• QUESTION:
What is folded (convergent) and
fault-block (divergent)?
• ANSWER:
The 3 types of volcanoes.
• QUESTION:
What is shield, cinder cone, and
composite?
• ANSWER:
4 possible immediate effects of a
volcanic eruption.
• QUESTION:
What are lava flows, volcanic ash,
mudflows, pyroclastic flows,
landslides, and steam explosions?
• ANSWER:
The smallest rock fragments that
erupt from a volcano.
• QUESTION:
What is ash?
• ANSWER:
The huge crater formed by the
collapse of a volcano when magma
rapidly erupts from underneath it.
• QUESTION:
What is a caldera?
• ANSWER:
The process in the asthenosphere that
is responsible for plate movements.
• QUESTION:
What are convection currents?
• ANSWER:
This is where hot rock rises from the
mantle away from a plate boundary.
• QUESTION:
What is a hot spot?
• ANSWER:
2 plates scrape past each other at
this type of plate boundary.
• QUESTION:
What is a transform plate
boundary?
• ANSWER: The name of the tectonic plate
marked by the arrow.
• QUESTION:
What is the Juan de Fuca Plate?
• ANSWER:
The 3 types of plate boundaries and
what happens to the CRUST at each.
• QUESTION:
What are convergent (folded or
destroyed), divergent (forms), and
transform (nothing)?
• ANSWER:
In fault-block mountain building,
blocks of rock tilt along these.
• QUESTION:
What are normal faults?
• ANSWER:
This determines the consistency of a
volcano’s lava.
• QUESTION:
What is the silica content?
• ANSWER:
A negative long-term effect of a
volcanic eruption.
• QUESTION:
What is acid rain or lower global
temperatures?
• ANSWER:
Hot springs that form at spreading
centers of the ocean.
• QUESTION:
What are deep-sea vents?
• ANSWER:
The volcanic rock fragment shown in the
picture.
• QUESTION:
What is a volcanic bomb?
• ANSWER:
Pangaea split into 2 sub-continents
this many million years ago.
• QUESTION:
What is 180?