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| the rupture and sudden movement of rocks along a break or crack in Earth's crust. |
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| The force acting on tectonic plates, when these blocks move earthquakes occur. |
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| The surface along which the crust moves |
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| Where do earthquakes occur? |
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| How are mountains created |
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| compression and tension forces produce ridges and mountains |
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| the process of making or becoming liquid |
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| Earthquakes that happen under water. |
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| Molten rock below earths surface |
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| At divergent plate boundaries, convergent plate boundaries and hot spots. |
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| Locations where volcanoes form from plate boundaries |
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| Yellowstone national park |
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| Convergent boundary moves in what direction |
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| Plates move towards each other |
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| Divergent boundary moves in what direction |
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| Plates Move apart from eachother |
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| Most of the Earth's largest Volcanoes are located at what Plate boundary? |
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| What causes a volcano to erupt? |
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| When magma builds up, it forces its way up to the surface and erupts |
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| What comes out of a volcano? |
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| long streams of molten rock |
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| Transform boundaries move in what direction |
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| plates slide past each other in opposite direction |
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| squeezing force at a convergent boundary |
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| Pulling force at a divergent boundary |
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| side-by-side dragging force at transform boundary |
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| Name two types of volcanoes |
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| composite and shield volcano |
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| large depression in the center of the volcano |
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| Earth's Mantle is made up of what? |
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| Theory of Plate tectonics |
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| Earths crust is broken into rigid Plates that move slowly over EArths surface |
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| What was Alfred Wegener's Hypothesis? |
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| that continents move called the continental Drift |
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| area where one plate slides under aother |
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