PLATE TECTONICS
WEATHERING
EROSION
GLACIERS
MISCELLANEOUS
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Definitions
100

The names of the four layers of the earth.

What are the inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust?

100

The two major types of Weathering Processes.

What are Physical and Chemical?

100

Loosens and transports sediment by gravity, wind, water, or ice.

What is erosion?

100

The vast majority of glacial ice is contained in these types of glaciers.

What are Continental Glaciers? (Glacial Ice-sheets also acceptable.)

100
Name of the landmass before the continents drifted apart.
What is pangaea?
100

Magma

What is molten rock beneath the surface of the planet?

200

They causes the plates to move.

What are convection currents?

200
___________ and ___________ are common forms of chemical weathering.
What are acid rain and oxidation?
200
Creates sand dunes and rock arches.
What is wind erosion?
200
The process of physical weathering and erosion by ice.
What is glaciation?
200
This can occur at any plate boundary to release stress.
What is an earthquake?
200

Lava  (Might be solid or liquid rock)

What is molten rock that has been expelled from the interior of a planet?  

300

The Appalachian and Himalayan Mountains were formed by which type of boundary?

What are convergent boundaries?

300
Type of weathering caused by living things
What is biological weathering?
300
Creates landforms such as valleys, canyons, caverns or floodplains.
What is water erosion?
300
The type of valleys glaciers form.
What are u-shaped valleys?
300
Beaches change shape and size because of ___________.
What is wave erosion?
300

Metamorphic Rock

What new type of rock is formed by Igneous rock that has been altered by physically or chemically?

400

This is created when a oceanic plate collides with a continental plate.

What is a subduction zone?

400
The grinding and scraping by wind, water or human activity.
What is abrasion?
400
A curve or bend in a stream bed.
What is a meander?
400
Long Island and Cape Cod were created this way.
What are terminal moraines?
400
River erosion can move all sizes of ______________.
What is sediment?
400

Compaction 

What process is part of the transition from erosion particles to sedimentary rock by pressure (mostly)?

500

Mid Atlantic Ridge is an example.

What is a divergent boundary?

500

Plants, algae, lichens, fungi, and bacteria can dissolve rocks for nutrients.

What is Biological-chemical weathering?  (Or Chemical-Biological Weathering?)

500
Triangle-shaped area at the mouth of a river and where deposition occurs.
What is a delta?
500
Created by glacial weathering and is evidence of glacial activity, specifically abrasion.
What are striations?
500
The material that is produced by explosive volcanoes.
What is pyroclastic material
500

Watershed (or Drainage Basin)

What is the region of land where all flowing surface waters collect?

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