Landforms
The process of breaking rock into silt, sand, clay, and other tiny pieces called sediment.
What is weathering?
Outer, thin layer of the earth.
What is crust?
Two plates slide past each other
What is slip? or What is a transform fault boundary?
What is active?
Earthquakes occur along
What are fault lines?
Once weathering has taken place the particles are moved
What is erosion?
Thickest layer
What is core?
Two plates move apart from each other
What is spreading? or What is divergent boundaries?
Expected to erupt in the future
What is dormant?
Scientists use this to describe the intensity of an earthquake
What is the Richter Scale?
What is landforms?
Thick layer of rock
What is mantle?
Two plates crash and fold up
What is collision? or What is convergent boundaries?
Not expected to erupt again
What is extinct?
Magnitude is considered a major earthquake
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Causes weathering- 3 things
What is water, wind, chemicals
Gives off an amazing amount of heat that causes the mantle to move
What is core?
One plate sinks below the other
What is subduction? or What is convergent boundaries?
Youngest chain of volcanic mountains
What are the Hawaiian Islands?
Earthquakes happen on the ocean floor and trigger
What are tsunamis?
Downhill movement of rock and soil because of gravity and can change landscapes quickly.
What is mass movements?
Broken into 10 large pieces
Volcanoes form on land because of
What is subduction? or What is convergent boundaries?
Faults collide and one goes underneath another, forming
What is a volcano?
What is all the time?