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Earth Surfaces Vocabulary #2
Earth Surfaces Vocabulary #2
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11 vocabulary words for test #2
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What is the scientific study of earthquakes?
Seismology
convergent
fault
Pangea
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What is it called when part of the crust is pushed up above the surrounding land?
fault
Pangea
Continental Drift
uplift
3
What is the colliding of plate movement?
divergent
convergent
lateral
uplift
4
What is the continents moving apart by forces of nature?
convergent
lateral
uplift
Continental Drift
5
What is spreading apart plate movement?
uplift
fault
convergent
divergent
6
What is the shaking of the ground, caused by the sudden release of energy in the crust?
earthquake
volcano
uplift
lateral
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What is sliding plate movement?
lateral
convergent
uplift
divergent
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What is an instrument which records the direction, intensity, and time of an earthquake?
seismology
uplift
seismograph
fault
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What is it called when lava, gases, ash, and rocks erupt from an opening in the crust?
earthquake
fault
convergent
volcano
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What is a crack in the Earth's crust where earthquakes have occurred?
volcano
fault
seismograph
uplift
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What is the theory that the continents were once one giant landmass?
uplift
divergent
Continental Drift
Pangea
