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The Earth's surface
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Junior Certificate Geography Mind Map on The Earth's surface, created by Shane Buckley on 24/05/2014.
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Shane Buckley
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The Earth's surface
The crust
Made up of plates
Plate tectonics
Plate Boundaries
Destructive
Fold Mountains
The andes
Earthquakes
Alaska 1964
Constructive
Mid ocean ridges
Mid-Atlantic ridge
Volcanic mountains
Mt Vesuvious
Dormant but will erupt again
Volcanic Islands
Iceland
Passive
Earthquakes
Chile 1960
Fault lines
San Andreas fault
The outermost layer
The mantle
The core
Earthquakes
Seismograph
Seismologist
Richter Scale
Focus
Epicentre
Tremor
Fold mountains
Destructive Boundary
One plate subducted
Other goes up and forms fold mountain
Gets melted in magma
Eventually Reforms into Mid-Ocean ridge
The Alps
Periods of folding
Alpine(30-35 million years)
Amorican(250 million years)
Volcanoes
Magma rises from magma chamber through vent
Reaches the surface as lava
Build up of material from eruptions causes cone shape
Eruption causes Ash cloud
Extict
Active
Dormant
Mid-Ocean Ridges
Magma rises through cracks in crust
Cools and hardens into rock
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