Word Watch
Solid rock hidden beneath soil/sediment.
What is Bedrock?
Earth's plates are always ___________.
Moving
The "Ring" where most volcanoes are.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Name the 5 layers from outside in.
Crust, U. Mantle, L. Mantle, O. Core, I. Core
Cooling molten material turns into.
What is igneous rock?
Large section of crust/mantle moving as one.
What is a Plate?
Boundary where one plate pushes under another.
Convergent Boundary (Subduction)
Main tool for predicting eruptions.
What is seismic activity monitoring?
Two things that happen as you go deeper.
Compressed and hotter.
Two factors that create Metamorphic rock.
What are Heat and Pressure?
Events happening together but not causing each other.
What is Correlation?
What happens to mountain height at collisions?
They get taller (grow).
Process that "shrinks" mountains.
What is erosion?
Is Basalt or Granite more dense?
What is Basalt?
Small pieces of rocks break into this term.
What are sediments?
A process that builds new land.
What is Constructive?
Boundary where plates slide past each other.
What is a Transform Boundary?
True or False: Mountains ONLY form from volcanoes.
What is False?
Density of a 15g rock with 5mL volume?
What is 3.0 g/mL?
In the rock cycle, when sediments experience cementing and compacting it turns into this rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
Do geologists use DIRECT observation of the interior?
What is No (Disagree)?
Plates move in different _____ and _____.
Directions and Speeds.
Volcanoes often occur in the same place as:
What are Earthquakes?
Mathematical formula for Density.
Mass divided by Volume.
Molten rock is when rock is __________ into magma.
What is melting?