The process that turns metamorphic rock into sedimentary rock.
What is weathering, erosion and deposition.
100
The solid layer of the earth that moves ocer a viscous layer.
What is the crust
100
1. Plates that move together.
2. Plates that move apart.
3. Plates that slide
What are convergent, divergent and transform plates.
100
This geologic feature results from tectonic plates slowly moving over a hot spot.
What is an island?
100
Two tectonic plates push toward each other causing intense heat and pressure in the Earth's crust. This type of rock can be formed.
What is metamorphic rock?
200
The action that will change a sedimentary rock into a metamorphic rock.
What is heat and pressure from magma.
200
When compared to the other layers of the earth, this layer has the lowest density.
What is the crust?
200
A landform that occurs as a result of the plates folding one on the other.
What is a mountain range?
200
This best explains why tectonic plates move.
What is heat convection from the mantle?
200
The name of the plate that covers most of Europe and Asia.
What is the Eurasian Plate?
300
How metamorphic and igneous rock become sedimentary rock over time.
What is water erodes landforms and deposits tiny pieces of rock in oceans.
300
The process in which water seeps into the cracks of a rock. As the temerature reaches freezing (0 degrees) the water expands and breaks the rock apart.
What is ice wedging?
300
The geologic feature that most likely forms when an oceanic tectonic plate is slowly subducted beneath a continental plate.
What is an ocean trench?
300
Most of the United States is part of this plate.
What is the North American Plate?
300
This is the order of the layers of the Earth from the center to the surface.
What is inner core, outer core, asthenosphere and lithosphere.
400
One rock was formed from rapidly cooling lava and is smooth and glassy. The other was formed from slow-cooling magma and has large crystals. This property is represented by these characteristics.
What is texture?
400
The core of the Earth is divided into two layers. The outer core is made of this.
What is Liquid iron and nickel
400
The collision of two plates change the order of the layers in the rock because of this.
What is rock layers compress forming faults and folds.
400
The plate that is directly south of the African Plate.
What is the Antarctic Plate?
400
The layer of the Earth that is most likely to be in constant motion.
What is the mantle?
500
A scientist finds a metamorphic rock next to a magma chamber and determines that it was origionally a sedimentary rock. He concludes that the heat from the magma formed this rock as well as this.
What is pressure on the rock formation?
500
Earth is made of different layers that have many characteristics. This is the thickest layer.
What is the mantle?
500
This process must occur in the mantle to make plates move.
What is convection currents?
500
The two plates that colided together to form the Himalaya Mountains.
What is Indo-Austrailian and Eurasian?
500
The layers of the Earth that are made of solid material.