Name that Rock Type
Plate Tectonics
Relative Dating
Crossing Boundaries
Rock Cycle Mechanisms
Agents of Change
Final Jeopardy
100
This type of rock often contains fossils
Sedimentary Rock
100
This is a supercontinent that existed millions of years ago.
What is Pangaea
100
This is where I would look if I wanted to find a very young rock or fossil
What is the top lay or above older rocks?
100
A mountain range would most likely be found at this plate boundary.
What is a convergent plate boundary.
100
In order for a rock to become metamorphic, this must occur.
What is Heat and Pressure
100
This is the transportation of soil and rock by flowing water, glacier, or wind.
What is erosion?
200
Thin wavy bands are present here
What are metamorphic rocks?
200
The same types of these are found on continents that are no longer connected to each other. This along with the fact that continents fit together like puzzle pieces support the theory of continental drift.
What are fossils?
200
True or false: A rock found in a cenozoic rock layer is older than a rock found in a mesozoic rock layer.
What is False
200
Plates slide past each other here
What are transform boundaries?
200
When an igneous rock cools slowly it is more likely to develop these blingy features
What are Crystals?
200
This is the process of breaking down of rock by wind, rain, plants, animals, and even chemical reactions.
What is weathering?
300
The majority of the Grand Canyon is made thick layers of shale, limestone, and sandstone - all examples of this type of rock.
What is sedimentary?
300
This cycling of heat in the asthenosphere causes plate movement in the lithosphere.
What are convection currents?
300
This type of fossil is short lived, wide spread, and easily identifiable.
What is an index fossil?
300
The world's longest mountain range is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge which formed at one of these boundaries
What is a divergent plate boundary?
300
Sediments undergo this to become sedimentary rocks
What is compaction and cementation?
300
These slow moving ice masses can cause small changes like scratches on rocks or large changes like the formation of valleys.
What are glaciers?
300
Put the following processes in order from smallest scale to largest scale
400
AKA volcanic rock...
What is igneous?
400
These often occur at the edge of tectonics plates as two plates slide past each other. They can also be rather destructive.
What are earthquakes?
400
The rock in this layer is the same age as the fish.
What is the rock in layer D?
400
This type of plate boundary is considered contstructive because new crust is formed.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
400
Any rock type must undergo this process to become magma.
What is melting?
400
Not to be confused with money in the bank this occurs when sediments accumalate.
What is depostion?
500
A popular choice for you counter tops, granite, is this type of rock meaning it formed beneath Earth's surface.
What is intrusive igneous?
500
Developed by Alfred Wegener and Harry Hess these 2 theories came together to form the foundation of plate tectonics theory.
What is Continental Drift and Sea Floor Spreading
500
This law states that older rocks are deeper beneath earth's surface while younger rocks and fossils are closer to the top.
What is the Law of Superposition?
500
Trenches form when oceanic plate is pulled beneath a continental plate at this type of convergent boundary?
What is a subduction zone?
500
This is the term used to describe the process of lava or magma becoming a solid
What is lithification or crystalization?
500
The valley pictured was most like formed by this process.
What is erosion from the river flowing through it?