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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 where two plates grind past each other without destroying or producing lithosphere? |
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| Earthquake vibrations can break gas lines, water lines, and electrical lines. |
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| Why do earthquakes often cause damaging fires? |
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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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| Oceanic-continental convergent plate boundary |
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| What type of plate boundary resulted in the volcanic activity illustrated in Figure 10-2? |
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| A fault in which the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall 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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| The crust and the uppermost mantle |
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| A tectonic plate consists of? |
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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 volcanic activity with? |
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| What is the most abundant gas associated with volcanic activity? |
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| The place on the surface directly above the focus |
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| An Earthquake's epicenter is |
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| Measurement of the amplitude of the largest seismic waves |
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| The Richter magnitude of an earthquake is determind from the? |
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| Which of the following factors helps determine wheather a volcanic eruption will be violent or relatively quiet? |
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| A lava with a surface of rough, jagged blocks and sharp, angular projections is called |
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| The broad, slightly dome-shaped volcanoes of Hawaii are |
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| Faults in which is mainly horizontal and parallel to the tend of the fault surface are called |
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