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38 Cards in this Set
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plate tectonics |
scientifi. theory that explains how major landforms are created |
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tectonic plates |
giant pieces of earth's crust |
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plate boundaries |
edge where teo plated meet, imaginary lines |
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convergent plate boundary |
destructive margins , it collided, subduction |
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earthquake, volcanos, trench |
products of oceanic and continental |
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earthquake, trench , underwater volcano |
products of oceanic and oceanic |
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earthquake, high plateau , mountain ranges |
product of continental and continental |
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divergent plate boundary |
away from each other, constructive margins |
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earthquake and rift valley |
product of continental and continental in divergent |
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earthquake, ridges |
product of oceanic and oceanic in divergent |
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transform plate boundary |
conservative margin, two plates grind past each other |
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stress |
a force applied to rock |
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compression |
force that squeezed the rock ( decreasing volume) |
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tension |
force that stretches (increase volume) |
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shear |
force that acts on rock in direction |
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marikina west valley |
largest fault line in Philippines |
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san andreas fault |
largest fault line in the world |
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sierra madre |
largest mountain ranges in ph |
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himalayas mountain ranges |
largest mountain ranges in the world |
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confining pressure |
caused by overlaying rocks |
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stress along the boundaries |
pressure exerted by crystal plates |
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folding |
bensing or curved |
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faulting |
a fracture or break |
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mountain building |
rock layers are squeezed and pushed |
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mountain ranges |
a chain of mountain |
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trenches |
a long narrow steep-side depression |
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volcanoes |
vents in earth's crust caused by eruption |
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valleys |
elongate depression on the earth's surface |
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red sea |
formed by arabian and african plate, but 3 to 4 years later arabian and somali |
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upwarping |
pressure from rising magmad leads to the upwarping of the crust directly on top |
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formation of rift valley |
magma breaks the crust and produced divergent plate |
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formation of linear sea |
water from surrounding region fills jnto depression forming a |
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formation of an ocean basin |
continous spread |
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continental shelf |
covered by the sea |
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continental slope |
edge kf continental shelf |
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continental rise |
the area betwees the continentsl slope and abyssal plane, the base of continentsl slope |
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abyssal plane |
deepest religion. vast, flat and cold solid surface |
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ocea ridges |
the boundaries between two diverging tectonic plates |
