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Geology Vocabulary Review
Geology Vocabulary Review
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I am a volcanic peak that's below sea level.
mountain ranges
hot spot
seamount
Volcano
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The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle.
conduction
subduction
solution
convection
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I am where plates meet on the lithosphere.
plate tectonics
trenches
mid ocean ridges
plate boundaries
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I am a tectonic boundary where two plates are moving toward each other.
conduction
subduction
divergent
convergent
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The direct transfer of thermal energy from one substance to another substance through touching?
subduction
convection
conduction
conjunction
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I am Pieces of the lithosphere, the solid, rigid rock layer of the outer Earth.
pangaea
supercontinent
plate boundaries
tectonic plates
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I am the rigid outer part of the Earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle?
mesophere
mantle
lithosphere
atmosphere
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I am the inner core, outer core, mantle and the crust.
continents
plates
Layers of the Earth
mesosphere
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I am a sudden and violent shaking of the ground,as a result of movements of the Earth's crust?
earthquake
divergent
subduction
fault
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I am a large land mass.
supercontinent
Pangaea
North America
Asia
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Rocks formed by the cooling and solidifying of molten materials.
igneous rock
erosion
sedimentary
metamorphic
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I am the transfer of thermal energy by the movement of a fluid.
convergent
conduction
conviction
convection
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The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor.
plate boundaries
sea floor spreading
convergent
subduction
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I am an undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced.
sea mount
mid-ocean ridge
trench
volcano
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I am the landmass that broke apart 200 million years ago?
North America
Asia
supercontinent
Pangaea
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What is hot molten rock erupted from a volcano?
lava
water
soil
magma
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I am a break in Earth's lithosphere along which the rocks move.
convection
fault
subduction
transform
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I am a deep linear areas of the ocean where a plate made of relatively old sea floor rock.
faults
trenches
mid-ocean ridge
seamount
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This is where heat is concentrated beneath a relatively small area beneath lithospheric plate.
plates
hot spot
sea mount
mid ocean ridges
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The theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion.
Pangaea
continental drift
supercontinent
plate boundaries