Rock Cycle
This rock changes under extreme heat an pressure.
What is a Metamorphic rock.
Name 3 of the seven major plates.
What is (answers may vary).
Breaking off of rock by wind, water or gravity.
What is weathering?
Humus is …
What is decayed organic material?
The inner-most layer of the earth.
The layers of sedimentary rock.
What is strata or horizons?
Causes tectonics plates to move
What are convection currents?
Gravity pushing down on sediment.
What is Compaction?
Soil needs to be able to grow …
What is plants?
The idea that all things that happen in the past are happening now and will happen again.
What is the principle of Uniformitarianism.
Foliated means.
What is straight or parallel grain layers?
This plate boundary causes mountains.
What is convergent?
The dropping off of sediment.
What is deposition?
The bottom layer of soil.
What is bedrock?
The middle layer of the mantle.
What is the atsthenosphere?
An underwater igneous rock.
What is a pillow rock?
This plate boundary causes earthquakes.
What is transform?
The movement of sediment.
What is erosion?
The top layer of soil.
What is topsoil?
The scraping away of material.
What is abrasion?
This rock has to form near water.
What is sedimentary rock?
This boundary creates slab pull.
What is divergent?
The glueing together of sediment.
What is cementation?
…. Are found in topsoil.
What are fossils.
Literally early humans.
What is a monkey?