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| Change speed and direction depending on the density and material they travel through |
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| Formed by plumes of magma in the mantle and can cause underwater volcanic mountains |
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| Form from huge tilted blocks of rock separated from surrounding rock by large faults |
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| Formed by compression forces folding rock layers |
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| Forces push up Earth's crust and allow the sedimentary rock to erode, leaving igneous or Medimorphic rock |
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| Cone-Shaped mountain formed from layers of cooled lava |
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| Principle that indicates Eath's crust and lithosphere float on the upper mantle |
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| Under continents and usually thick under mountains |
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| Thin under oceans and denser than continental |
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| Occurs when a denser plate sinks underneath a less dense plate |
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| sections of the Lithosphere |
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| flows like putty and is largest layer of Earth. Solid |
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| Liquid molten metal above innercore |
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| dense iron core:very hot and dense. Solid due to pressure |
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| occur at mid-ocean ridges snd causes plate to slide down the slope |
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| Happens as plates move away from mid-ocean ridges and become denser |
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| causes faults and earthquakes as two plates slide past each other |
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| fracture in rocks where movement occurs |
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| caused by uneven heating and differences in density |
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| another word for a pulling force |
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1.Rising Magma fills the magma chamber
2.Lava flows through the pipe
3.Lava reaches the vent
4.lava collects at a crater
5.Lava flows down the volcanic mountain |
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| five steps of a volcanic eruption |
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