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| Which seismic waves compress and expand rocks in the direction the waves travel? |
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| What kind of plate boundary occurs when two plates grind past each other without destroying or producing lithosphere? |
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| Why do earthquakes often cause damaging fires |
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| Earthquake vibrations can break gas lines, water lines, and electrical. |
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| Tensional stresses commonly cause which of the following? |
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| What volcanic feature is illustrated at A in Figure 10-2 |
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| what type of plate boundary resulted in the volcanic activity illustrated in Figure 10-2 |
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| oceanic-continental convergent plate boundary |
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| a fault in which the hanging wall moves down relative to the foot-wall is a....? |
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| what type of volcano is built almost entirely from ejected lava fragments |
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| the particles produced in volcanic eruptions are called |
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| what feature is labeled A in figure 10-1 |
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| what type of volcano is illustrated in figure 10-1 |
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| a tectonic plate consists of |
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| the crust and uppermost mantle |
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| which of the following can be produced at an ocean-continental convergent boundary |
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| earthquakes are usually associated with ... |
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| what is the most abundant gas associated with volcanic activity |
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| an earthquake's epicenter is .... |
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| the place on the surface directly above the focus |
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| the Richter magnitude of the earthquake is determined from the |
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| arrival times of P waves and S waves |
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| which of the following factors helps determine whether a volcanic eruption will be violent or relatively quiet |
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| a lava flow with a surface of rough, jagged blocks and sharp, angular projections is called an |
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| faults in which movement is mainly horizontal and parallel to the trend of the fault surface are called |
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| in figure 3-1, what process or processes would be occurring in the part of the rock cycle labeled E |
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| compaction and cementation |
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| in figure 3-1, what type of rock should occur in the part of the rock cycle labeled B |
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| according to the theory of plate tectonics, |
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| the lithosphere is divided into plates |
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| the hawiian islands were formed when the pacific plate moved over |
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| a tsunami can occur when there is vertical movement at a fault under |
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| overall, which seismic waves are the most destructive |
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| what forms when one oceanic plate is forced beneath another plate |
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| when an earthquake occurs, energy radiates in all directions from its source, which is called the |
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| the super continent in the continental drift hypothesis was called |
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| through which earth layer are S waves not transmitted |
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| one kind of evidence that supports Werner's hypothesis is that |
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| fossils of the same organism that has been found on a different continents |
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| which of the following is not one of the three types of rocks |
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| the Himalayas in south Asia are an example of what type of plate boundary |
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| convergent continental-continental boundary |
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| most of the active volcanoes on earth are located in a belt known as the |
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| where is the energy source found that drives the processes that form igneous and metamorphoc rocks |
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| what is the name of the major strike-slip fault in California |
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| according to figure 8-1, when will the first P wave be received, if an earthquake epicenter is approximently 1800 kilometers from the seismic station |
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| 3.5 minutes after the earthquake |
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| according to figure 8-1, what is the distance between the seismic station and an earthquake epicenter, if the first S wave arrives 4.0 minutes after the first P wave |
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| the broad, slightly dome-shaped volcanoes of Hawaii are |
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| in figure 3-1, what type of rock should occur in the part of the rock cycle labeled F |
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