Exam 21: Structural G Eology and P Late Tectonics

The lowest places on Earth's surface are called __________ trenches.

The structural region of Earth that is a viscous liquid is the

The three types of plate boundaries are called convergent, divergent, and ______________ boundaries.

Each whole-number step on the Richter scale represents about how many times more energy release that the preceding whole-number step?

Secondary seismic waves travel ______________ (slower or faster?) than primary waves in solids.

What is the name of the earthquake scale that describes the severity of an earthquake by noting the amount of damage it causes?

Strike-slip faulting takes place along the ______________ boundary of two plates.

The sharply defined boundary that separates the crust from the mantle is called the ______________.

Earth's outer core is

The place, or zone, where one plate descends under another plate and into the asthenosphere is called a(n) ______________ zone.

Geologists view the section of Earth called the ______________ as consisting of a number of close-fitting plates.

What type of faulting is expected along transform faults?

What type of faulting results from expansive stresses?

Alfred Wegener postulated that the continents were once part of a single supercontinent that he called ______________.

Remanent magnetism refers to the magnetism of rocks that contain the mineral named ______________.

What is the name of the earthquake scale that gives an absolute measure of the energy released by an earthquake?

The three types of plate boundaries are convergent, __________, and transform boundaries.

The Wasatch Mountains in Utah are examples of ______________ mountains.

The three types of plate boundaries are convergent, ______________, and transform boundaries.

The Grand Tetons are examples of which type of mountain?