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Wheeler's 6,7,8,9
Boundary
Question: At this type of boundary the two plates collide with each other
Answer: What is a convergent boundary
Question: At this type of boundary the two plates pull away from each other
Answer: What is a divergent boundary
Question: At this type of boundary the plates slide past each other horizontally
Answer: What is a transform boundary
Question: Subduction zones occur at this type of boundary
Answer: What is a convergent boundary
Question: Most of these boundaries are located on the ocean floor
Answer: What is a divergent boundary
Fault
Question: The walls slide past each other at this type of fault
Answer: What is a strike slip fault
Question: The hanging wall moves up at this type of fault
Answer: What is a reverse fault
Question: The hanging wall moves down at this type of fault
Answer: What is a normal fault
Question: Shear stress causes this type of fault
Answer: What is a strike-slip fault
Question: Tension causes this type of fault
Answer: What is a normal fault
Mountains
Question: The Appalachians are this type of mountains
Answer: What are folded mountains
Question: This type of mountain forms when melted rock erupts onto Earth's surface
Answer: What is volcanic mountains
Question: These types of mountains are caused by tension
Answer: What are fault-block mountains
Question: Most of Earth's volcanic mountains are around the edge of the Pacific Ocean known as
Answer: What is the ring of fire
Question: What type of mountains have anticlines and synclines?
Answer: What are folded mountains
volcanoes
Question: The small depression around a volcano's vent
Answer: What is a crater
Question: Type of volcano that has gently sloping sides and quiet eruptions
Answer: What is a shield volcano
Question: Type of volcano that has alternating quiet and violent eruptions.
Answer: What is a composite volcano
Question: This type of volcano has the steepest sides
Answer: What is a cinder cone volcano
Question: The column of extremely hot mantle rock
Answer: What is a mantle plume
Earthquakes
Question: The return of rock to its original shape after deformation
Answer: What is elastic rebound
Question: A place within Earth along a fault at which the first motion of an Earthquake occurs
Answer: What is the focus
Question: A point directly above the focus on Earth's surface
Answer: What is the epicenter
Question: An Earthquake under the ocean can cause this
Answer: What is a tsunami
Question: This many Earthquakes are detected each year
Answer: What is 500,000