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Match the definition with the correct term: the sudden return of deformed rock to its un-deformed shape.

Elastic rebound

Elastic return

Flexible return

Plastic rebound

Match the definition with the correct term: location where the first motion of an earthquake occurs.

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Epicenter

Seismic gap

Match the definition with the correct term: igneous rock formations created when magma does not reach Earth’s surface, but cools and solidifies inside the crust.

Magma

Hot spot

Volcanism

Pluton

Match the definition with the correct term: formed on the ocean floor where one plate subducts under another.

Fissure

Trench

Rift

Vent

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Lagoon

Fiord

Estuary

Emergent

Match the definition with the correct term: funnel-shaped pit at the top of a volcanic vent.

Crater

Rift

Fissure

Trench

Match the definition with the correct term: produced by runny lava with low viscosity and few trapped gases.

Quiet eruption

Pyroclastic material

Cinder cone

Caldera

Match the definition with the correct term: opening in a volcano from which lava flows.

Fissure

Vent

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Trench

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Silicate

Differential weathering

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Match the definition with the correct term: the sudden return of deformed rock to its un-deformed shape.
Elastic rebound

Match the definition with the correct term: location where the first motion of an earthquake occurs.
Focus


Match the definition with the correct term: formed on the ocean floor where one plate subducts under another.
trench

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