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Earthquakes by Mind Map: Earthquakes

1. Transform Plate Boundary

1.1. This boundary is where plates are sliding past one another. An example is the San Andreas fault line in California, US

2. Convergent Plate Boundary

2.1. This boundary is where plates collide with each other creating mountains.

3. Divergent Plate Boundary

3.1. Apart, dividing rift that have a physical appearance of a rift boundary or seafloor spreading

4. Convection Currents

4.1. In mantle, cause plate movement

5. Types of Plate Boundaries

6. Asthenosphere

6.1. Another name for Earth's crust

7. occur in the

8. Boundaries

8.1. Lines where tectonic plates meet

9. occur along

10. Tremors

11. Cause these to run through the ground

12. Tectonic Plates

12.1. Are Earth's Crust

12.2. Float on the mantle

13. occur because of the movement of

14. Landforms

14.1. Mountains

14.2. Volcanoes

14.3. Valleys

15. How strong an earthquake is

16. Tension

17. are caused by

18. Magnitude

18.1. How strong the earthquake is

19. Moment-Magnitude Scale

19.1. More Reliable than Richter Scale

20. P Waves

20.1. Push and Pull Waves

21. S waves

21.1. Shake waves

22. Continental

23. Two types of plates

24. Oceanic

25. Seismometer

26. release

27. Seismic Waves

28. Belt

28.1. Areas where earthquakes occur

29. Happen in a

30. Energy

31. release

32. Earthquake waves

33. Focus

33.1. Where the earthquake begins below ground

34. start at the

35. Epicenter

35.1. Directly above focus

36. Commonly occur on

37. Plate Margins

37.1. Destructive

37.1.1. Where on plate goes under another

37.2. Constructive

37.2.1. When two plates float apart

37.3. Collision

37.3.1. When two plates crush against each other

37.4. Conservative

37.4.1. When two plates slide past each otger

38. Richter Scale

38.1. Measures magnitude of earthquake