These are also called as composite volcanoes because they are built of layers f alternaying lava flow, ash blocks of unmelted stone. It is also larger than cinder cone.

It doesnt have horizontal layers but a step conical hill of tephra( volcanic debris) that pile up around nd downwind from the vent. It could only grow about 1,000-1200 feet tall.

Type of volcano built entirely or mostly from fluid lava vents. It is the largest type of volcano resembling a warrior's shield lying on the ground.

Earth's brittle crust that is broken in to pieces is called

Are pieces of earths crust d uppermost mantle, together reffered to as lithosphere

Sima

Sial

A boundary in which two plates move towarnds each other causing one of the lithosphere to subduct beneath an overriding plate

A region where he crustal plates are moving apart

A boundery produced when two plates slide past each other

Type of convergent late boundary when two continental plates collide.

A collision between two plates composed of oceanic lithosphere

The denser oceanic plate is pushed under the less dense continental plate in the me manneras as at an ocean-ocean boundary

The bending of the crust towards the mantle f the earth

Low,narrow depressions on the seafloor created by the subducting oceanic plates

A belt of volcanoes formed above a subducting oceanic tectonic plate, with the belt arranged in an arc shape as seen from above

A chain of volcanoes positionin an arc shape

Series of ocean waves with a very long wavelengths caused by a large scale disturbance of the ocean.