Rocks
A rock that has been changed by extreme heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
This is the steepest type of volcano and most common volcano
What is a composite volcano?
A preserved remain of a once-living thing.
What is a fossil?
The geological area at convergent plate boundaries, where one plate moves under the other.
What is a subduction zone?
The way sediment is changed sedimentary rock.
What is compaction and cementation?
A volcano that wiped out Pompeii, along with Herculaneum, and many other villas in AD 79.
What is Mt. Vesuvius?
The continent that has found the most dinosaur fossils.
What is North America?
A force that builds up when plates get stuck.
What is pressure?
The way rocks are changed into sediment.
What is weathering and erosion?
The most active volcano ever recorded, that last erupted in 2018 in Hawaii.
What is Kilauea?
The branch of science concerned with fossil animals and plants.
What is paleontology?
A transform boundary that extends about 750 miles through California.
What is the San Andreas fault?
A process which takes about 20 million years, and is the way rocks transform.
What is the rock cycle?
A volcano commonly found around shield volcanoes averaging about 300 feet tall (or 91 meters).
What is a ash cinder volcano?
An aromatic resin that can drip and ooze down trees, as well as fill internal fissures, trapping debris such as seeds, leaves, feathers, and insects.
What is amber?
The tool that can be used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
A sedimentary rock often used as fuel found in 70 countries world wide.
What is coal?
A dense and destructive mass of very hot ash, lava fragments, and gasses, that are ejected explosively from a volcano.
What is pyroclastic flow?
A dinosaur fossil that is the biggest and heaviest dinosaur fossil ever found and weighs 77 to 110 tons.
What is Argentinosaurus?
The point at which seismic waves spread out from, in an earthquake.
What is the focus?