Plate tectonics

Small earthquake that often precedes a majorearthquake. 

 One plate descends beneath the other plateforming ____________ boundaries.

The results of plate movement can be seen at ___.

The presence of the same____ on several continents supports the idea of continental drift.

The scale that estimates the energy released byearthquakes.

Name plate 13.

Boundaries that most commonly create earthquakes.

Boundaries that create volcanoes.

Small volcano built from pyroclasticmaterial, steep slopes, small, and they occur in groups. 

Name plate 10.

____ currents inside Earth might drive plate motion.

Name plate 4.

The hanging wall has moved up, relative to thefoot wall, indicating reverse activity.

Name plate 11.

Name plate 2.

Small earthquake that follows the main earthquake.

Which region has no earthquake activity?

A sudden and violent shaking of the ground,sometimes causing great destruction.

The blocks of crust have laterally movedrelative to each other. 

The name _______ comes from two words that mean“all-land”.

 Push/pull waves that compress and expand; travelthough solids, liquids, and gases. 

TheRing Of Fire mainly occurs around which plate?

Plates move apart.

Seismic waves that travel along Earth’s outerlayer; they travel slowly through solids. 

Large depressions in the volcanoes that are circular and exceed one kilometer in diameter. 

Earth’s lithosphere is broken up into rigidsection, allowing plates to move.

 Earthquakes are measured by _________ and___________.

 The place where movement first occurs in an earthquake.

The sideways anddownward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle.

 A fracture in the earth’s crust where one sidemoves relative to the other. 

Thecrust and the upper mantle make up the Earth’s __________.

The hanging wall has moved down relative to thefoot wall, indicating normal fault activity.

Particles produced in volcanic eruptions and canweigh 2 millimeters to several tons.

Name plate 14.

 An under-water mountain chain. 

Name plate 1.

Plates grind past each other without destroyingthe lithosphere. 

 ______ are formed when two continental platescollide. 

  Measures the amplitude of the largest seismicwave.

Contains pyroclastic materials, adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, large with violenteruptions.

Broad,gently sloping volcanoes built from fluid basaltic lava. 

Measure of a materials resistance to flow. 

  Igneous activity that occurs within a plate awayfrom the boundaries. 

Name plate 5.