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What is the difference between the two types of seismic waves?
Body waves travel through the interior of the earth (high frequency) while surface waves travel only through the crust.
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How do island arcs form?
They are formed when an older oceanic plate subducts under a younger oceanic plate
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What happens in a transform plate boundary?
Shear stress occurs causing two plates to slide past each other, producing fault zones
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What type of stress is exhibited by divergent plate boundaries?
Tensional Stress
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A type of division of earth's layers based on physical and behavioral properties
Mechanical Layers
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What are the evidence of Plate Tectonic Theory?
(1) Age of crustal materials (2) Fossil Evidences (3) Volcanism and seismicity (4) Hotspots (5) Geodesy
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What is the difference between oceanic and continental lithosphere based on composition?
Oceanic - mafic and ultramafic, Continental - granitic, sedimentary and metamorphic
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What fossilized ferns were found in all of the southern continents that support the concept of continental drift?
Glossopteris Fern
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An earthquake belt that is characterized by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes. Also considered as the zone of greatest seismic activity.
Circum-Pacific Belt or Pacific Ring of Fire
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These boundaries are considered conservative margins.
Transform Plate boundaries
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Why is the Plate Tectonic Theory considered as the unifying theory?
Because it encompasses the concept of continental drifting with the help of seafloor spreading evidence
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Why is it important to have at least three seismic data for triangulation?
To locate the point of intersection that is the epicenter of the earthquake
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What happens during oceanic-continental convergence?
The oceanic plate subducts and the continental plate overrides forming Volcanic arcs
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