Made of cinders and they can form on the he side of a shield or composite volcano.

A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in different directions.

The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.

A tectonic plate boundary where two plates collide, come together, or crash into each other.

If two convergent boundaries collide then it can form a mountain

It is a wide oval shaped volcano that

Created by the earthquakes waves that are created by the earthquake. The waves cause the ground to crack in a line which is the fault.

This is a big ring that goes along the outer edges of the Pacific ocean. It also goes along some parts of North America and Asia.

The layers in the volcano go in a pattern of ash, lava, ash, and then lava.

The layers of the volcano are very compact and go in a pattern of ash to lava to ash.

A data set providing information on the total number of fossils that have been collected over time.

The study of fossils from earlier geological time periods.

A widely distributed fossil that existed in a narrow range of time and is used by scientists to identify geological periods.

A major belt of volcanoes and earthquakes that rims Pacific Ocean along a tectonic plate boundary.

A crack in the Earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other.

In tectonic plates, the site at which and oceanic plate is sliding under a continental plate.