Earth Layers
What is the crust?
At this boundary tectonic plates collide
What is convergent?
A scientist who studies earthquakes
What is a seismologist?
A landform with a high relief and high elevation
What is a mountain?
A rock formed by extreme heat and pressure
What is metamorphic?
The lithosphere is made of these two layers
What is the crust and upper mantle?
At this boundary tectonic plates slide past each other
What is a transform boundary?
The area on a fault where an earthquake first begins
What is the focus?
A landform with a low relief and high elevation
What is a plateau?
A process that transforms igneous rock into sediment
What is weathering and/or erosion?
This layer of earth is made of melted materials
What is the outer core?
The circulation of material due to differences in temperature and density
What is convection?
A fault where two blocks of rock slide horizontally past each other
What is a strike-slip fault?
What is reflief?
The size and arrangement of minerals or grains in a rock
What is texture?
The magnetic field produced by the movement of molten materials in the core
What is the magnetosphere?
Seafloor spreading occurs at this plate boundary
What is Divergent plate boundary?
Molten rock below earth's surface
What is magma?
A landform with low relief and low elevation
What is a plain?
A solid made up of only one or a few chemicals
What is a mineral?
The total number of earth layers
What is 4i?
The process where are denser plate sinks below and lighter plate
What is subduction?
A large volcano with gentle slopes made from basaltic lava
What is a shield volcano?
This term means "height above sea level"
What is elevation?
A process that causes minerals to form in a shallow lake during dry conditions
What is evaporation?