Volcanos
This type of volcano has shallow sides and is created by slow moving lava over multiple eruptions.
What is a shield volcano?
What is a divergent plate boundary?
These rocks are formed by lava rapidly cooling down.
What are igneous rocks?
The layer of Earth that we walk on and interact with each day.
What is the crust?
This process involves the formation of fossils.
What is fossilization?
This type of volcano has the most violent eruptions.
What is a composite (stratovolcano) volcano?
Convergent plate boundaries involve this movement of plates where one plate moves underneath the other.
What is subduction?
These rocks are formed through layers of particles and sediments compacting together.
What are sedimentary rocks?
The circulation of molten rock from top to bottom to rotate cooler to warmer temperatures in the asthenosphere.
What are convection currents?
The substance that something must be buried under to form a fossil.
Double Jeopardy Question: Based on this information, you are most likely to find fossils within this type of rock.
What are sediments?
DJQ: What are sedimentary rocks?
This type of volcano is most known for having extremely steep sides with a large, bowl shaped central vent.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
Transform plate boundaries with a shearing stress type are the main cause of this natural disaster.
What are earthquakes?
What are metamorphic rocks?
This is what we call the molten rock beneath Earth's surface.
DJQ: This molten rock is called lava only after it reaches this area.
What are bones?
Magma that has breached Earth's surface goes by a new name.
Double Jeopardy Question: This is also the primary source of a specific type of rocks.
What is lava?
DJQ: What are igneous rocks?
This landform is most often made by plate tectonics moving together on convergent plate boundaries.
What are mountains/volcanos?
This process involves breaking down rocks into smaller pieces known as sediments.
What is weathering?
Earth's surface is constantly changing through a cycle of these 3 processes of new layers that break down, move, and settle sediments across the world.
What is weathering, eroding, and depositioning?
These parts of organisms are preserved int he process of fossilization to be found later.
What are minerals?
Name 2 visual characteristics of one type of volcano (shield, composite, or cinder cone).
- Shield: What is a volcano with shallow sides, multiple layers, slow moving lava, and/or found most often on islands?
- Composite: What is a volcano with a classic cone shape, volatile eruptions, steep sides, and/or found most often on subduction zones?
- Cinder Cone: What is a volcano with extremely steep sides, a larger central vent (shaped like a bowl), and/or often have shorter or less frequent eruptions?
Earth's crust is the thinnest layer that is made up of these 3 sublayers that blend into the mantle.
What are the surface, lithosphere, and asthenosphere?
This process involves the settling of sediments in a "final" place where they form the newest layer of Earth's surface.
Double Jeopardy Question: Which geological law supports the idea that the top layer of Earth's surface is the youngest layer?
What is deposition?
DJQ: What is the Law of Superposition?
The surface of Earth is constantly changing through this process of new layers being added on top of each other, leaving older rock strata deeper in the ground.
What is superposition?
When comparing two fossils with each other to determine age, this is the primary factor paleontologists look for.
Double Jeopardy Question: This law is used by geologist and paleontologists to support their findings.
What is the depth in Earth's crust?
DJQ: What is the Law of Superposition?