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36 Cards in this Set
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Anticline |
upword fold |
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Syncline |
downword fold |
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Fracture |
break in a rock |
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Anticline |
upword fold |
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Syncline |
dwnword fold |
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Fracture |
break in a rock |
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Fault |
Break in Earth's crust along which movement occurs. |
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Landform |
physical features on earths solid surface |
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Elevation |
height of a point on earth above or below sea level |
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Summit |
highest point on a mountiantop |
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Floded mountian |
Mountain formed by the folding of rock layers. |
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Dome mountain |
mountian formed when upfolds in rocks creat a rounded structer that looks like a bowl turned upside down |
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Fault-block mountain |
mountian formed when normal faults uplift a block of rock |
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PLain |
Large, flat area just above sea level |
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Plateau |
large, flat area at a high elevation |
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Volcanism |
Movement of magma inside Earth |
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Lava |
magma that reaches earths surface |
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Vent |
volcano opening from which lava flows |
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volcano |
Vent and the volcanic material around it |
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Crater |
pit at the top of a volcano cone |
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Caldera |
large hole that forms when the roof of a magma dome collapses |
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Shield cone |
volcanic cone made up of layer of hardened lava |
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Cinder cone |
Volcanic cone made up of rock particles, dust, and ash |
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Composite cone |
volcanic cone made up of alternating layers of lava and rock paeticles |
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Earthquake |
sudden strong movement of earths crust |
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Focus |
point beneath earths surface where an earthquake starts |
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Epicenter |
place on earths surface directly above the focus |
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Seismc wave |
Earthquake wave |
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Seismograph |
instrument that detects and measures earthquake |
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P-wave |
fastest earthquake wave |
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S-wave |
Second earthquake wave to be recorded at a seismograph station |
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L-wave |
surface wave |
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Richter scale |
scale that measures the energy released by an earthquake |
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Tsunami |
large ocena wave caused by an earthquake |
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Ring of Fire |
major earthquake and volcanic zone that almost forms a circle arount the Pacific Ocean |
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