PLATE TECTONICS
WEATHERING and EROSION
SPACE
HOP AROUND
PLATES
100
The names of the four layers of the earth.
What is inner core, outer core, mantle and crust
100
The breakdown of rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
These are the two belts of the solar system.
What are kuiper and asteroid?
100
This is a large (sometimes miles thick) piece of ice that slowly moves across the landscape.
What is a glacier?
100
Name of the landmass before the continents drifted apart.
What is pangaea?
200
Causes the plates to move.
What are convection currents
200
___________ and ___________ are common forms of chemical weathering.
What are acid rain and oxidation?
200
This is the name of our galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
200
The land built up at the mouth of a river from the sediment that has washed down.
What is a delta?
200
This can occur at any plate boundary to release stress.
What is an earthquake?
300
The Appalachian and Himalayan Mountains were formed by which type of boundary?
What is convergent.
300
When water or wind carry away weathered material.
What is erosion?
300
Creates landforms such as valleys, canyons, caverns or floodplains.
What is water erosion?
300
These are the main two evidences found at plate boundaries.
What are volcanoes and earthquakes?
300
These form at a divergent boundary that is under a CONTINENT.
What is a rift valley?
400
This is created when a oceanic plate collides with a continental plate.
What is a subduction zone.
400
This is evidence that a rock was once covered by a glacier.
What are striations?
400
This is the difference in a moon and a planet.
What is planets revolve around the sun, moons revolve around other objects?
400
The part of the continent that is under the ocean.
What is the continental shelf?
400
The Andes mountains were created because of this kind of boundary?
What is a subduction zone?
500
This is the name for the earthquakes and volcanoes that surround the pacific ocean.
What is the ring of fire?
500
This part of plants can cause weathering?
What are the roots?
500
This is the name of a space "rock".
What is a meteor?
500
This protects the earth from powerful positively and negatively charged solar winds.
What is the magnetic (or electromagnetic field)
500
This is what the continents float on?
What the mantle?
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