Brief Review for Earth Science Topic 12 Earths Interior
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| 1049211594 | Original horizontality | Assumes that sedimentary rocks and some igneous rocks form in horizontal layers | |
| 1049211595 | Folded | Rock layers are bent or curved | |
| 1049211596 | Faulted | Rock layers are offset or displaced along a crack | |
| 1049211597 | Uplifted | Reason why we find fossils hundreds to thousands of meters above sea level | |
| 1049211598 | Earthquake | Natural rapid shaking of the lithosphere | |
| 1049211599 | Seismic waves | Waves that come out from an earthquake | |
| 1049211600 | Epicenter | Location on land or water surface directly above Earthquake focus | |
| 1049211601 | P waves | Earthquake waves that vibrate in the direction the wave is moving | |
| 1049211602 | S waves | Earthquake waves that vibrate at right angles to the direction the wave is moving | |
| 1049211603 | Tsunami | Large wavelength ocean wave that is produced by an Earthquake or landslide | |
| 1049211604 | Volcano | Mountain composed of extrusive igneous rocks | |
| 1049211605 | Volcanic eruption | Giving off of gases, lava, and lava rock onto Earth's surface | |
| 1049211606 | Moho | Seperation between the mantle and the crust | |
| 1049211607 | Lithosphere | Crust and the upper portion of the mantle | |
| 1049211608 | Asthenosphere | Plastic-like portion of the mantle | |
| 1049211609 | Plate tectonics | Concept that Earth's lithosphere is broken up into plates | |
| 1049211610 | Divergent plate boundary | Where two plates separate and magma rises to fill the separation, usually at mid-ocean ridges | |
| 1049211611 | Convergent plate boundary | Where two plates collide | |
| 1049211612 | Subduction | Where oceanic crust below continental crust because of its higher density | |
| 1049211613 | Transform plate boundary | Where two plates slide past one another | |
| 1049211614 | Hot spot | Volcanic activity in the middle of plates, how the Hawaiian Islands were formed |
