vocab
Sudden shaking in the earths crust
What is an earthquake?
Used to show the life cycle of rocks
Rock that has gone through compression
What is sedimentary rock?
Two areas of rock sliding past eachother
What is a transform boundary?
The theory of the gravitational equalibrium with the crust and mantle
What is isotasy
Center of earthquake on earths crust
What is the epicenter?
Magma cooled on earth surface
What is an extrusive igneous rock?
Deepest plate boundary
What is the mariana trench
Direction of fold going downward
What is a syncline?
Process how dust can become rocks
What is lithification?
Large chamber that holds molten rock under a volcano
What is a batholith?
Process that rocks go through from igneous/ metamorphic to sediments
What is weathering and erosion?
Longest plate boundary
What is the mid-Atlantic ridge?
What is a recumbent fold?