PLATE TECTONICS
WEATHERING
EROSION
ROCKS AND MINERALS
MISCELLANEOUS
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
Loosens and transports sediment by gravity, wind, water, or ice.
What is erosion?
100
This can cool and harden and form igneous rock.
What is magma or lava?
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
Creates sand dunes and rock arches.
What is wind erosion?
200
These are two ways that sediments are formed.
What is weathering and erosion?
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
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
What happens if an igneous rock weathers? What rock does it turn into?
What is sedimentary rock?
300
Beaches change shape and size because of ___________.
What is wave erosion?
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
For an Igneous rock to become a sedimentary rock, what needs to happen?
What is weathering, erosion, compaction, and cementation?
400
River erosion can move all sizes of ______________.
What is sediment?
500
CT River Valley was formed this way.
What is a divergent boundary?
500
Plants, algae, lichens, fungi, and bacteria can dissolve rocks for nutrients.
What is chemical biological weathering?
500
Triangle-shaped area at the mouth of a river and where deposition occurs.
What is a delta?
500
This determines the size of crystals that form in igneous rocks.
What does the the cooling rate of the magma or lava effect?
500
The material that is produced by explosive volcanoes.
What is pyroclastic material
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