PLATE TECTONICS
Igneous Rocks
EROSION
GLACIERS
MISCELLANEOUS
100
What are the names of the four layers of the earth.
crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
100
Rock that forms from the cooling of magma below Earth's surface.
What is intrusive igneous rock?
100
Loosens and transports sediment by gravity, wind, water, or ice.
What is erosion?
100
The 2 types of glaciers.
What are Continental and Alpine?
100
Name of the landmass before the continents drifted apart.
What is pangaea?
200
How do convection currents cause the plates to move?
The moving magma under the crust and magma squeezing out between plates causes it to move.
200
Rock that forms from the cooling of lava above Earth's surface.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
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?
300
Deep ocean trenches form along what type of boundary?
What is convergent.
300
Type of weathering caused by living things
What causes coarse grained (large crystals) igneous rock to form?
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?
400
This is created when one plate converges with another that is the same density.
What is mountain formation.
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?
500
Mid-ocean ridges form at this type of boundary.
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
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
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