ATOC 185 Study Guide - Final Guide: San Andreas Fault, Thrust Fault, Natural Disaster
1 Dec 2017
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Instructions: there are 30 questions on this test. If you answer more than 25 questions, only the first 25 questions will be marked. All answers should be short-answer, from several words to several sentences. Provide all answers on the test sheet itself. No aids are allowed except for translation dictionaries. Good luck: the great majority of earthquakes and volcanoes are found at the margins of tectonic plates, while comparatively few occur in the interiors of the plates. Nearly all earthquake and volcanic activity occurs where the plates are interacting with each other through spreading apart from each other, subducting, or sliding by each other. The four largest earthquakes ever recorded (> m9) occurred where an oceanic plate is being subducted beneath a continental plate. Here, huge amounts of stress can accumulate as the subducting plate forces its way into the mantle. Name:________________________________student number:___________________: rift zones are found on both continents and in ocean basins.
