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2 A geological state that may lead to widespread damage or risk.
9 A mud flow composed of water, rocky material, and debris.
10 Sediment with particles larger than silt.
11 A long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance.
12 A super continent made up of all land masses that supposedly once existed.
13 Particles between clay and sand in size.
14 A cavity in the ground caused by water erosion.
15 The border between basement and sedimentary rock.
17 The point on the earth's surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake.
19 Two plates pushing into each other.
20 A fault where rock is displaced in a horizontal direction.
21 an idealized cycle of processes undergone by rocks in the earth's crust, involving igneous intrusion, uplift, erosion, transportation, deposition as sedimentary rock, metamorphism, remelting, and further igneous intrusion.
22 Two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.
24 The layering of metamorphic rock on top of itself.
25 A theory explaining the structure of the Earth's crust.
26 term used in science that refers to the geological process of rocks breaking apart without changing their chemical composition.
27 When plates slide past each other,
33 A type of map characterized by large-scale detail and quantitative representation of relief, usually using contour lines, but historically using a variety of methods.
34 A mountain with a vent that lava comes out of.
35 P-waves are a type of elastic wave, and are one of the two main types of elastic body waves, called seismic waves in seismology, that travel through a continuum and are the first waves from an earthquake to arrive at a seismograph.
36 The layer between the crust and outer core.
37 Hot molten or semifluid rock erupted from a volcano or fissure.
38 The gradual breaking down of something by wind, water, ice, or some other natural agent.
39 Sediment with particles smaller than silt.
40 A break in a body of rock.
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1 A mixture of molten and semi molten rock.
3 The man who originally came up with the idea of continental drift.
4 The waves that arrive behind P waves on seismograms,
5 An underwater mountain range formed by plate tectonics.
6 he movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise, and colder, denser material to sink under the influence of gravity, which consequently results in transfer of heat.
7 The process that sand and soil go through to get added to a land mass.
8 The hanging wall rises over the foot wall.
9 The part of the Earth consisting of the crust and mantle.
16 A long, narrow depression in the sea floor running parallel to a plate boundary
18 Sediment with particles bigger than silt.
19 The erosion or disintegration of rocks, building materials, etc., caused by chemical reactions.
23 To cover an area with water.
28 Snow or mud that slides down a steep slope.
29 The point on the axis of a lens or mirror to which parallel rays of light converge or from which they appear to diverge after refraction or reflection.
30 a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.
31 The mechanism responsible for plate movement.
32 When a mass of land slides down a slope.
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