Plate Tectonics
Plates and Erosion
Weathering
Rock Cycle
Landforms
100
Sudden movement of plates can cause this.
What is an earthquake?
100
Formed the Grand Canyon
What is erosion by water?
100
What is a process in the rock cycle that causes rock to break down.
What is weathering?
100
Phase change: rock to magma
What is melting?
100
Forms as a river enters and ocean or lake.
What is a delta?
200
Large amount of volcanoes and earthquakes exist along these boundaries in the Pacific Ocean
What is the Ring of Fire?
200
Causes smooth river rocks or pebbles.
What is flowing water?
200
Type of chemical weathering that increases the rate of weathering as compared to normal rain.
What is acid rain?
200
Created by river water eroding the sides of the river channel.
What are meanders?
300
Tectonic plates are a part of this earth layer.
What is lithosphere?
300
Movement of sediment
What is erosion?
300
Type of weathering where the rock changes shape but not what it is.
What is physical or mechanical weathering?
300
Process by which hot rock rises through the mantle. (Occurs at "hot spots")
What is convection?
300
A flat area of land near a river that is very rich in minerals.
What is a flood plain?
400
New ocean floor forms at this type of boundary.
What is a divergent boundary?
400
Difference between continental plate and oceanic plate other than location
What is thickness or thinness?
400
Glaciers cause weathering by doing this.
What is carrying rocks that scratch land/bedrock?
400
Basalt and granite, which form when magma or lave cool, are this type of rock.
What are igneous?
400
Associated with caves, especially in Florida.
What is a sinkhole?
500
Florida has very few earthquakes because of this.
What is we are in the middle of a tectonic plate (or we are not on an boundary.)
500
Convergent boundaries can form this landform.
What are folded mountains?
500
Type of chemical weathering that involves exposure to the air.
What is oxidation?
500
Metamorphic to erosion to sediment to __________________ to sedimentary.
What is deposition?
500
Type of sedimentary rock that is rich in minerals.
What is loess?
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