Continental volcanic arc a break in a rock along which movement has occurred

Convergent boundary any break in a rock in which no significant movement

has taken place
Crust
the science that studies Earth
Continental Crust
a concentration of heat in the mantle capable of
Oceanic Crust creating magma

Divergent boundary a mass of molten rock formed at depth, including

dissolved gases and crystals.
Earthquake
a continuous mass of land with long width and
Fault height on the ocean floor.

Fracture rigid sections of the lithosphere that move as a unit

Geology a theory which suggests that Earth’s crust is made up of

plates that interact in various ways, thus producing
Hot spot earthquakes, mountains, volcanoes, and other geologic
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Magma
the first type of seismic wave to be recorded in a
Mid-ocean ridge seismic station

Plates consolidated mixture of minerals

Plate tectonics second type of earthquake wave to be recorded

in a seismic station
Primary (P) wave
a record made by a seismograph
Rocks
a device used to record earthquake waves
Secondary (S) wave
an event in which a slab of rock thrusts into the mantle
Seismogram
a boundary produced when two plates slide past each
Seismograph other

Subduction a depression in the seafloor produced by subduction

process
Transform fault boundary
a chain of volcanoes that develop parallel to a trench
Trench

Volcanic Island arc

mountains formed in part by igneous activity associated

with subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath a
continent

a boundary in which two plates move toward each other,

causing one of the slabs of the lithosphere to sub duct
beneath an overriding plate

the outer portion of the earth

the thick part of the Earth’s crust, not located

under the ocean

the thin part of the Earth’s crust located under the oceans

a region where the crustal plates are moving apart

vibration of Earth due to the rapid release of energy