05 FLASHCARDS for Dynamic Earth Test 2025

Front

The North American plate and Pacific plates meet at the San Andres Fault in California causing frequent earthquakes. This fault is located at a _____ boundary.

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Transform

Front

How do most mountains form?

Back

Continents collide and fold up on each other

Front

This is where new material is added on to plates.

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Divergent plate boundary

Front

This is where plate material may be destroyed (or recycled) and returned to the mantle.

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Convergent plate boundary

Front

What are these plates doing?

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Forming a transform boundary

Front

The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary.

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Divergent

Front

What geologic process formed the Himalayas?

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two continental plates converging

Front

The instrument that records and measures earthquake's seismic waves is called a ____________________.

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seismograph

Front

Breaks in Earth's lithosphere

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faults

Front

What are seismic waves?

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Energy released by an earthquake in waves or vibrations