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*Where a subducting plate slides beneath the lithosphere, melting takes place and a(n) ____ is created.

What creates the small holes found in a vesicular texture?

Which of the following methods of transportation will result in the best degree of sorting?

*Which process, common near black smokers, uses hot water circulating through the crust to alter olivine and pyroxene into chlorite and serpentine?

What kind of volcanic hazard can be triggered by the collapse of a lava dome?

*Plate tectonics is a unifying idea that helps explain where and why there are ___ on Earth.

What information is needed to determine the distance from the focus of an earthquake to the seismic receiving station?

What is the minimum number of points needed to pinpoint the epicenter location of an earthquake, using the radius of a circle of possible points, as obtained from the lag time in arrival between a P wave and an S wave?

The forces generated inside Earth that cause deformation of rock as well as vertical and horizontal movement of portions of Earth’s crust are called

*Using the choices below, select the statement that best explains how dissolved gases drive volcanic eruptions.