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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