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Plate Tectonics

Horizontales
area of land smaller than a continent and entirely surrounded by water.
a numerical scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake
A tectonic boundary where two plates are moving toward each other.
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.
a theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust and many associated phenomena as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates
are volcanic regions thought to be fed by underlying mantle that is anomalously hot
part of the earth between the core and the the crust
a large wave on the ocean, usually caused by an undersea earthquake, a volcanic eruption, or coastal landslide.
the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.
the outermost layer of a planet.
one of the most important natural boundaries on the Earth's solid surface, that between two lithospheric plates.
Verticales
hot molten or semifluid rock erupted from a volcano or fissure, or solid rock resulting from cooling of this.
a large area of exposed Precambrian crystalline igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks that form tectonically stable areas.
The primary force that causes the seafloor to spread and continents to drift.
the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
A tectonic boundary where two plates are moving away from each other and new crust is forming from magma that rises to the Earth's surface between the two plates.
the process of eroding or being eroded by wind, water, or other natural agents.
having solidified from lava or magma.
the attraction to iron and other metals in electric currents
be carried slowly by a current of air or water