The Earth's Surface
Plate Boundaries
Rock Cycle
100
Flows of heat and material from below Earth's crust powered by?
What is radioactive decay
100
What phenomenon occurs at oceanic-oceanic divergent boundaries?
What is the mid-ocean ridge/sea floor spreading
100
sandstone is an example of what type of rock?
What is sedimentary
200
The lithosphere is composed of what?
What is the uppermost mantle and crust (rigid rock)
200
The oldest oceanic crust is located where?
What is along the coasts
200
Granite is an example of what type of rock?
What is igenous
300
Sub-surface molten rock is also called what?
What is magma
300
Hawaii is a series of islands that formed as the oceanic crust moved over an isolated site of upwelling magma, this is called what?
What is a hot spot
300
Marble is an example of what type of rock?
What is marble
400
Surface molten rock is also called what?
What is lava
400
Plate boundaries are the main location of what two things?
What are earthquakes and volcanoes
400
Igneous rocks can be classified by what two things?
What are texture and composition
500
A deformable plastic zone, composed of dense rocks, on top of the upper mantle is what?
What is the aesthenosphere
500
Ocean-continental convergent plate boundaries are what type of zones?
What are subduction zones
500
Chemical sedimentary rocks can be one of two types, what are they?
What are carbonates and evaporites?
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