Rocks
Boundaries
Crustal
Features
Weathering/Erosion
Extra Stuff
100
A rock that is melted and cooled.
What is an igneous rock?
100
Where two or more plates meet.
What is plate boundary?
100
When two plates rub against each other, they shake the earth creating this.
What is an earthquake?
100
When rocks are taken to another place.
What is erosion?
100
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger landmasses.
What is an isthmus?
200
A rock made outside the volcano in the form of an igneous rock.
What is a fine-grained igneous rock?
200
Where two plates go opposite of each other.
What is a divergent boundary?
200
When two plates collide against each other they push the earth up, creating this.
What is a mountain?
200
When a rock is put into another place.
What is deposition?
200
Lightning-like discharges by a volcano with no thunderstorms nearby.
What is volcanic lightning?
300
A rock made inside the volcano in the form of an igneous rock.
What is a coarse-grained igneous rock?
300
Where two plates come together.
What is convergent boundary?
300
When two plates go opposite of each other they cause something, not make.
What causes a volcano?
300
When a rock is broken down by the elements.
What is chemical weathering?
300
A low place between mountains.
What is a valley?
400
A rock made from pieces of other rocks and compressed.
What is a sedimentary rock?
400
Where two plates slide against each other.
What is a transform boundary?
400
A separation or crack in the Earth's crust caused by a divergent boundary.
What is a fault line?
400
When a rock is broken down physically.
What is mechanical weathering?
400
A large, flat area of land that is higher than the surrounding land.
What is a plateau?
500
A rock that is melted, compressed, and changed completely.
What is a metamorphic rock?
500
Where one tectonic plate goes under another.
What is a subduction zone?
500
A large area of the earth in which plates of the earth's crust are moving away from each other, forming an extensive system of fractures and faults.
What is a rift zone?
500
When a rock is broken down by a plant.
What is biological weathering?
500
A flat-topped rock or hill formation with steep sides.
What is a butte?
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