Plate tectonics

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• The theory about how the earth's crust moves on flowing magma.
• Tremors in the earth's suface due to stress along fault lines.
• The chain of volcanoes around the pacific plate.
• Can be formed from active volcanoes in the ocean (Hawaii, Japan, etc.).
• What spews lava and ceates earthquakes?
• The "bowl" at the top of a volcano that usually appears after eruption.
• A chain of islands in the middle of the pacific ocean, America's 50th state.
• A crack or fissure in the earth's surface (San Andreas _____)
• Magma after it leaves the mantle.
• A place where two plates sit right next to one another.
• the part of the mantle near the earth's surface.
• Two plates pushing together.
• Two plates sliding past eachother at a Transform boundary (type of fault).
• Two plates moving away from eachother.
• Two plates sliding past one another.
• The plastic layer of earth.
• Lava before it reaches the surface.
• Earth's thinnest layer.
• The part of a volcano where lava flows out.
• The cloud of hot ___ that comes from a volcano when it erupts

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