Plate Tectonics
Oceanic Plates contain what type of heavy rock?
Basalt
A rock created by heat and pressure.
Metamorphic.
The term that describes a volcano with gentle slopes and low viscosity lava.
Shield
What is the major process occurring in coastal areas?
Coastal Erosion(The constant battering of waves into the shoreline can cause great amounts of erosion over time.)
Crescent shaped dunes.
Barchan Dunes
The building of mountain ranges by any tectonic processes.
Orogenesis
This type of rock undergoes crystallization
igneous
A volcano with steep slopes and explosive eruptions.
Composite or strato.
The movement of sediment down the length of the beach in the direction of wave movement.
Longshore drift
Extensive elevated region with a fairly flat table like surface.
Plateau.
How many plate tectonics are on Earth
17, 5 major and 12 minor
Loose sediments undergo a process of compaction and cementation.
Lithification
Molten rock prior to erupting form a volcano.
Magma
A dry bar of sand that extends from the beach out into the ocean and is usually parallel to the shore is known as?
A Sandspit
Fan shaped sediment landform/deposition downslope of a river or glacier.
Alluvial fan.
This process occurs when magma changes the chemical structure of an object
assimilation
Temperature, chemical differation, rate of cooling, and assimilation is determined by
viscosity
This is the #1 control of desert landscapes
moving water
What is the name of the series of processes to tell where magma originated from?
The Bowen Reaction Series
Deserts can form because of this process: the leeward side of a mountain has blocked precipitation as clouds evaporate.
Rain Shadow