Name It
Dynamic Earth
Transform
Convergent
Divergent
100
What is the name of the downhill movement of a large mass of rocks or soil due to gravity?
What is mass wasting?
100
The movement of weathered material from one location to another is called
What is erosion?
100
The type of natural disaster that transform boundaries create are called
What are earthquakes?
100
Vent in the surface of the Earth through which molten rock flows is called a
What is volcano?
100
The series of beliefs that scientists hold regarding the movement of Earth's crust is called
What is theory of plate tectonics?
200
Material formed from broken down rocks is called...
What is sediment?
200
The broken pieces of crust that move on Earth's surface
What are Tectonic Plates?
200
Earthquakes form as a result of built up what?
What is pressure or energy?
200
Magma is
What is molten rock under the surface of the Earth?
200
Aesthenosphere is
What is the melted part of the mantle below the lithosphere?
300
Sediment is set down in a process called
What is deposition?
300
Lithosphere is made up of
What is the crust and uppermost part of the mantle?
300
This occurs when energy is released along a fault
What is an earthquake?
300
Lava is
What is molten rock that has reached the surface?
300
The currents of molten magma are called
What are convection currents?
400
The type of weathering that changes the shape of a rock is
What is physical weathering?
400
The name of the triangular deposition of sediment is called
What is delta?
400
The word that describes the strength of an earthquake is
What is magnitude?
400
The landform created when a convergent boundary does not subduct is a(n)
What is volcanic arc or volcano?
400
This is formed by a divergent boundary
What is new crust?
500
The type of weathering that changes the composition of a rock is called
What is chemical weathering?
500
The four main agents of change that cause erosion are
What are water, wind, ice (or glaciers), and gravity?
500
A fault is a
What is a crack or fracture in the crust ?
500
Subduction is
What is when one plate goes under the edge of another plate?
500
The landform formed when land pulls away at a divergent boundary and crumples against another plate is
What is mid-ocean ridge?
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