Interpreting maps vocabulary 2022-2023

A sudden, violent shaking of the earth, caused by a shifting of the Earth's Crust

• earthquake

• volcano

• plates

• transform boundary

an opening in the earth's crust, usually on mountain top, that allows magma to reach the earth's surface

• volcano

• earthquake

• fault

• divergent boundary

a large crack in the earth's surface where earthquakes usually - or could - occur

• fault

• volcano

• crash

• plates

huge sheets of rock that make up the earth's outer crust

• plates

• boundary

• fault

• earthquake

underwater ditches, very deep in the ocean formed by oceanic plates colliding together

• oceanic trenches

• convergent boundary

• plates

• transform boundary

when two plates crash into each other and causes one to slide under the other

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• oceanic trench

• transform boundary

where two plates, usually oceanic plates, move apart from each other

• divergent boundary

• transform boundary

• fault

• convergent boundary

when two plates slide alongside each other creating cracks called faults

• transform boundary

• fault

• volcano

• divergent boundary

What forms when two of earth's plates pull apart?

• volcano

• ocean trench

• earthquake

• mountain range

Earthquakes usually occur _______?

• along faults

• in the ocean

• after a volcano

• at the same time as a volcano