ROCK CYCLE
________________ make up rocks.
ALL rocks are made of ___________.
Minerals
Define Plate Boundaries:
A place where two or more plates meet
(or similar response)
This layer is made of solid metals iron and nickel.
INNER CORE
Name the supercontinent that existed MYA:
PANGAEA
WHAT scientists is credited with explaining CDT?
(Continental Drift Theory)
(Alfred) Wegener
ALL rocks will one day become __________ rock.
Metamorphic
This boundary causes Earthquakes
Transform
PLASTICITY is a property used to describe this layer.
ASTHENOSPHERE
A large wave or intense waves created by an under-ocean earthquake:
TSUNAMI
WHAT hold(s) up continents and oceans?
TECTONIC PLATES
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Volcanic rock is what type?
Igneous
Boundaries that move AWAY from each other causing ridges to form are called _________________.
DIVERGENT
Tectonic Plates are IN this layer:
LITHOSPHERE
WHAT are the pieces of rock, earth, bone, etc. carried over the surface of the earth called?
SEDIMENT
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About how far down (how deep) have humans gone into the planet?
1/3 of the crust
7.5 miles
12,262 kilometers
(or close response)
FIll in the partner term:
Rocks can be created by weathering and ______________.
Erosion
The two boundaries that can create volcanoes:
Divergent
and
Convergent
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This layer has the greatest area - there is the most of his layer on Earth:
MANTLE
The TYPE of rock that a fossil is:
SEDIMENTARY
NAME the rea of the world where many volcanoes and earthquakes occur in the Pacific:
Ring of FIRE
Metamorphic rocks are created/changes by ____________ and ___________.
Heat and Pressure
A line of seismic activity created on a boundary is a __________.
FAULT (Faultline)
What is the reason the inner core is solid although it is so hot it should be liquid?
(Intense) PRESSURE
Wind, Water and moving ICE are called agents of ______________.
EROSION
WHAT are fossils the best PROOF of?
CDT Continental Drift Theory
The continents are drifting (apart)
(or similar response)